Resizing improvement : option to lock aspect ratio

This: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149867 leads me to believe there is already a way to do this. Anyways, this should be fixed upstream.

I installed gnome and gave it a try, but couldn't find the option to lock the aspect ratio on a window. Assigned to the tracker bug for metacity, please file a specific bug in gnome bugzilla and reassign to that.

Interesting. So I guess I should file the bug against Xawtv and Tvtime instead, then. But since XawTv and tvtime aren't native gnome programs, they can't rely on metacity features, not knowing what window manager that might used with.
A workaround could be, that metacity allows the user to force the aspect ratio when resizing, for example by holding the "Alt" or "Control" keys. This way you can keep the aspect ratio constant, even when the program doesn't handle it.
I will file a new wishlist bug about this...

I thought that's what you were asking for in the first place?

Yes and no... in this bug I was thinking of a way for the program (say Xawtv) to communicate with metacity.
But it now appears that it's not the best way, and the new bug is about letting the user, not the program, to control the aspect ratio.

The first issue has already been addressed, as you pointed out, however the second isn't (to the best of my knowledge), so putting both issues in the same report would have been a bit confusing I though. But if you feel this isn't so, please mark the second report as a duplicate of this one, I don't mind ;-)

I don't see how I pointed out that anything has been addressed, but that's alright. I don't know if xawtv and tvtime have their own BTS, but I think you should suggest to them that they implement a way to lock the window's aspect ratio, as well as file a bug upstream for metacity as I mentioned earlier (the one you filed as another bug here).

This bug in tvtime:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1039337&group_id=64301&atid=506987

> I don't see how I pointed out that anything has been addressed

The upstream bug you pointed me to, impled that metacity already had a way to let a program control teh azspect ratio. Which was exactly the point of my bug :-)

> This bug in tvtime:

Thanks. I don't need to file that one then. I will file one against xawtv, unless you can come up with that bug too ;-)

Upstream bug was incorrect, reassigned to the correct (I think) upstream bug which is actually fixed.

XawTV should set the aspect ratio window hints for metacity (or other) window manager to pick up on. This still needs to go upstream, but I can't find a bug tracker for xawtv. Probably it should be raised on the video4linux list but I'm not sure.