Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Embed QEmu screen on a custom window

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Christian MICHON wrote:
> Hi Fabrice,
> 
> I understand your point clearly, and I still remembered it.
> But adding whichever toolkit would be adding pixels around the
> qemu instance, and it would have to interact with SDL.
> 
> My simple logic here is why not do it in SDL itself, like an
> OSD you'd call by bindkey, like a TV remote control ?
> 
> I do not know what cocoa.m implementation is, but I've seen
> screenshots. It does require space, and if you go full-screen,
> you can't do modifications. Hence the suggestion to go
> full SDL.
> 
> I'll still look into the 4 SDL-guitoolkits I mentionned. Interesting
> stuff they can do... :)

Improving the SDL interface is a waste of time as SDL has some annoying 
bugs and cannot give a good GUI for the end user. Doing a native GTK or 
Windows GUI is not complicated and would bring much more confort to the 
end user.

Fabrice.