Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] vnc: support some new extensions.

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:57:28PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> The rfb standard keeps envolving.  While the official spec is kind of
> frozen since a decade or so the community maintains an updated version
> of the spec at:
>       https://github.com/rfbproto/rfbproto/
> 
> This series adds support for two new extensions from that spec: alpha
> cursor and extended desktop resize.
> 
> alpha cursor allows a full alpha channel for the cursor image (unlike
> the rich cursor extension which has only a bitmask for transparency).
> 
> extended desktop resize makes the desktop-resize work both ways, i.e. we
> can not only signal guest display resolution changes to the vnc client
> but also vnc client window size changes to the guest.
> 
> Tested with tigervnc.
> 
> gtk-vnc (and anything building on top of it like virt-viewer and
> virt-manager) has no support for these extensions.

I'm working on adding these two extensions to gtk-vnc as they're a notable
gap compared to spice.

Regards,
Daniel
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