Hi ----- Original Message ----- > > If need be, we could lower gtk3 requirement to 3.10 (droping wayland > > support in this case). Afaik, 3.16 is going to make it in rhel7 as > > part of regular desktop rebase. > > I think we should continue to support older 3.x versions for a while.
I just sent a series to fix build with min gtk+ 3.10. However, in general, I think it's reasonable for spice-gtk to follow the desktop schedule, especially now that regular rebases will take place for those in rhel. GL support requires recent kernel/graphics layer, and wayland requires recent gtk+, why would spice-gtk have to support all that with an older gtk+? Imho, it makes much more sense to use the modern desktop environnment instead of having workarounds to support the old versions. > Dropping wayland isn't an option I think. Is it possible to build > with/without glarea support (depending on the installed gtk version) and > hiding that from applications without too much fuss? I.e. with the > glarea widget being a child of the new gtkstack widget, can we swap that > for a drawingarea and render the old-style egl way in case we find old > gtk version, without that being visible outside spice-gtk? I have spent some time trying to fit a manual egl window surface in gtk+. While it works pretty well on X, it turns out it is really hard to do the same thing on wayland. I managed to get some rendering displayed, but it was badly aligned, and full of flickering, and I couldn't find easy solution to all that. Then I decided to try gtkglarea and found out that it just worked. And since recent gtk+ is required for wayland, depending on gtkglarea sounds like the best move forward anyway. But anyone, feel free to fix gl support on wayland with gtk 3.10. > Another reasonable option would be going for two git branches: Using > last weeks release as base for a stable branch and plan to do bugfix > releases (possibly backporting support for new spice protocol features > too) for a year or two. sure, although if we can avoid it, it's easier. _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
