Main inclusion request for gtkglext

[Thierry Carrez]

The gtkglext library is a dependency of the latest version of gtk-vnc.
Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportGtkglext for details.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The build dependency is optional and could be dropped. Which additional features will this give us?

The project is dead upstream for a long time, thus we'll sit on all bugs which we encounter for this.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

I tend to agree with you. I've done the MIR on behalf of soren : he needs the new gtk-vnc for virt-manager, but I'm not sure if the features he needs are related to the gtkglext dep. I'll wait for his comment.

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

Basically, it'll allow the guest console to scale up and provide a full screen view. I'd have a hard time saying that it's a killer feature, but I'd say that it rates rather high on the nice-to-have scale.

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

I talked to Anthony Liguori (gtk-vnc upstream). Here's the irc log snippet:

23:03:40 <aliguori> it's a soft dependency btw, but let me look
23:04:32 <aliguori> so Martin's analysis is wrong
23:04:53 <aliguori> gtkglext is not dead, it recently got a new maintainer, and there's been some effort to merge it into gdk proper
23:05:08 <aliguori> that's why we choose it, the expectation is that it's going to become a standard feature in gdk
23:05:57 <aliguori> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119189
23:06:24 <aliguori> anyway, it gives you software scaling support, both vinagre and virt-manager support this in their respective source code trees

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks for the clarifications.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

OK, approved and promoted.