[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] RFC: Update NEWS for 0.33 release

[Marc-André Lureau]

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 05:35 -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 05:11 -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > ACK
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 11:47 +0400, marcandre.lureau at redhat.com
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> > > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > There are weird rendering issues on f25 that I am investigating.
> > > > It
> > > > would be worth to fix it before the release.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Anything specific ? I did not notice anything weird - using latest
> > > commit.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > After guest resize, the display no longer refreshes. I have to
> > resize the widget again to see update, until the guest resizes and
> > breaks again.
> 
> Strange I saw report about it yesterday, but I am unable to reproduce
> it...
> 


It turns out the fix is a395ac5, init egl only when needed. Let's add:

- fix display refresh issue on f25 after resize (init egl only when
  required)


> > 
> > Also, there is still annoying flickering with wayland guest (f25
> > beta),
> 
> Per documentation in kernel QXL needs corresponding Xorg driver, with
> wayland is not in used. IIRC you had patches to make virtio default
> for f24 and newer - virtio doesn't flicker
> 

I thought the qxl kernel driver supported modesetting, but I guess it makes more sense to switch to virtio. I'll check the status in virt-manager & friends.

> I had a patch for spice-gtk to supress flickering, but it had some
> drawbacks. I can resubmit it

sure

> 
> > I am updating to latest update to see if anything got fix recently.
> If you want rpm:
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pgrunt/spice-upstream/build/46
> 1676/
> 
> Pavel
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.co
> > > > > > m>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >  NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > > > >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> > > > > > index 178bedd..e788186 100644
> > > > > > --- a/NEWS
> > > > > > +++ b/NEWS
> > > > > > @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
> > > > > > +v0.33
> > > > > > +=====
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +- lz4 compression of USB channel
> > > > > > +- keyboard: pause key fixes, set keypress-delay to 0 on
> > > > > > local
> > > > > > socket
> > > > > > +- mouse: fix pointer grabbing in server mode
> > > > > > +- clipboard: fix copying text from old application without
> > > > > > UTF8_STRING
> > > > > > +  target (motif)
> > > > > > +- file-xfer changes: grouping all transferred files per
> > > > > > operation
> > > > > > +- new
> > > > > > spice_file_transfer_task_get_{total_bytes,transferred_bytes}
> > > > > > API
> > > > > > +  and associated properties
> > > > > > +- new SpiceChannel:socket property
> > > > > > +- fix rendering issues with CSD on Windows
> > > > > > +- fix gettext support, some translations updates
> > > > > > +- many leaks and races fixes, new tests
> > > > > > +
> > > > > >  v0.32
> > > > > >  =====
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
>