GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 678773
Clicking on thumbnail doesn't enter fullscreen mode
Last modified: 2016-03-31 14:01:06 UTC
When clicking on a box thumbnail in the grid view, the resulting state should be a fullscreen running box. I've recoded a video that shows the very poor experience of opening up a Box. Boxes is supposed to be about a streamlined experience. We have quite a long way to go here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAb2_HodyDw Apart from not ending up fullscreen, the video demonstrates appalling performance, bug 674669, and unpleasant blinking on virtual display resize.
When boxes isn't running maximized, the resulting state is not fullscreen, but still windowed.
The animation from maximized to fullscreen will need be all that easy to get smooth and nice-looking. We can try to make it work, but perhaps we should have a fallback animation like fade-out, then fade in maximized if we don't manage to do it well.
Things have improved since, good job. One case where we're still getting it wrong is when running boxes windowed and setting up new box. Instead of going windowed, we go fullscreen (or maybe maximized, I don't get the new .osd styling in this case).
Created attachment 234609 [details] [review] Don't force fullscreen when a newly created vm is started I'm not sure why we currently do this, but jimmac says this is wrong.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670239
jimmac: Ok, so it seems to be made fullscreen due to your wishes?
Created attachment 235105 [details] [review] app: Selecting item when maximized enters fullscreen
Review of attachment 235105 [details] [review]: This does exactly what I imagined. Land it! :)
Review of attachment 234609 [details] [review]: Ack from jimmac & zeeshan
Attachment 234609 [details] pushed as 2fb3f12 - Don't force fullscreen when a newly created vm is started Attachment 235105 [details] pushed as adcc12e - app: Selecting item when maximized enters fullscreen