Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 05/18/2010 03:09 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 17.05.2010 23:43, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>    
>> On 05/17/2010 04:35 PM, malc wrote:
>>      
>>> There's one thing that SDL does marvelously well - it's just one fairly
>>> small and self contained library that doesn't unleash dependency hell on
>>> the user.
>>>
>>>        
>>>> The fact that we have cocoa support in the tree is basically an admission of
>>>> failure with SDL.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I don't think so, the way i see it: someone had an itch (i.e. an
>>> application that does not integrate well with his windowing environment)
>>> and he scratched it.
>>>
>>>        
>> SDL doesn't integrate well into a modern Gnome desktop either.  I don't
>> see why we have Cocoa and not Gtk.  If the answer is, someone needs to
>> send patches, expect patches soon :-)
>>      
> So with this argument, we'll not only get a GTK backend, but Qt and
> Windows backends, too? But then you can't reasonably say any more that
> DirectFB would be too much additional code to maintain.
>    

Yes, that's the point.  Instead of having a single backend (SDL) and 
expecting SDL to do everything for us, we would support multiple 
backends (like DirectFB).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>