Hi while working on the seamless mode, couple of issue concerning it's behaviour came up. Firstly the simple stuff. 1. Closing last seamless window The question is what should happen, after you close the last window while in seamless mode. Currently when no window are open, the desktop with taskbars is shown (without window decorations, so basically fullscreen with your own taskbar showing) I propose, that closing the last window should close the client, because that's what I always expect, when I close th last window, and I'm always surprised that the background shows up instead :) Second way would be to disable seamless mode. This might seem better, but in the end, I see it not much better then showing the background, because it might be confusing when you close a window, that a VM shows up instead. 2. Starting from command line So this one is rather simple, we could have --seamless-mode option to just open the VM directly in seamless mode. Currently a maximized VM would show up if no windows are open, but with the change I propose, this would be an issue. Maybe don't enable seamless mode when no windows are open? So then this option would run the VM normally, and seamless mode button would be greyed out. 3. Alt tabbing inside the VM This one is currently kinda hacked. I changed the keybind inside the VM from alt+tab to shift+tab, but we could just bind the shift+tab combo to send alt+tab key combo to the VM or something. The propblem starts when the alt+tab interface shows up, because it is only rendering over the windows themselves. Could there be multiplatform way to show the interface? This might also be customization dependant (different sizes, widgets, etc) Example: http://i.imgur.com/pZlcCIV.png 3. Accessing activities, start menues etc This one is a weird one. We could do it like other VMs with a special button to emulate activities/start etc floating around the screen and showing most of the VM when clicked, or something like that. I'm not really sure how to do this one 5. Multi desktop and multi monitor This might be currently the biggest propelm, with no real idea how to solve it. Currently the VM is still a one big window, so showing up multiple windows might be the way to go, but can we have multiple displays working as a workspace? It might require like 8 display for simple dual screen + 4 workspaces layout, not even mentioning dynamic workspaces in gnome. 6. Launching specific applications from command line So this might be a cool little feature. Imagine running the VM from command line, with seamless mode on and telling it exactly what app/script run when the client launches. It could even work like having pecific applications in the activities which would in turn open the client and launch the app, and close the clitn when the app is closed. There is a security concern about leting the user run scripts on a VM from command line, but wer could have some kind of settings, where the user would choose specific command like words for specific binaries/scripts in the VM beforehand. Example: remote-viewer --seamless-mode --start writer Which would look if a writer command has been set upt, and if yes, run the given application. So that's most of the issues that really need solving, and it's better to discuss it in the list instead of just us 3 in Brno :) Thanks for all the responses. -- Lukas Venhoda _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
