[Spice-devel] keypress-delay issue

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:42:56PM -0700, Jared Kwek wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Marc-André Lureau <mlureau at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> This may be the case, but I was more referring to the fact that I can
> >> turn off image compression in the VM's XML configuration under the
> >> graphics section.  In fact, gnome-boxes does this by default because
> >> the assumption is that you are running the VM locally:
> >> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2013-March/msg14904.html.
> >
> > And yet, this is unnecessary as Spice should turn off compression locally.
> > I agree that customization can be nice for some use cases, but the less
> > options is often the better for the users and the maintainers.
>
> For this use case, I would agree that an option would not be needed if
> the value could automatically change based on some parameter (e.g.
> network latency) and could be done effectively.  If not, then I would
> prefer options to tune my experience based on my use case.  It doesn't
> need to be something that most users need to deal with...just set to
> some sane default and those that want to tinker can tinker.
>
> Even if there's no further traction on this, I at least value the fact
> that I have the ability to change the value because of Victor's patch.
>

Great that the patch helped you.

Now that I understand why we have the 100 ms delay as default, I agree
with Marc-Andre that currently we don't want to add an option to tweak
it yet.

(I don't consider environment variable as option but a hack for testing)

Maybe in the future with more use cases like gaming, we might need to
improve this.

Thanks again for your report and willingness to help spice.

Best,
Victor Toso