From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqv86-00005m-04 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:55:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqv84-00005S-KG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:55:36 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqv84-00005P-Dd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:55:36 -0400 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqvHV-0003Qh-9f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:05:21 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqv7p-0002Fn-1f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:55:21 +0200 Received: from c-24-7-50-23.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.7.50.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:55:21 +0200 Received: from blp by c-24-7-50-23.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:55:21 +0200 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:55:08 -0700 Message-ID: <87odwu2wb7.fsf@benpfaff.org> References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <1150357642.5679.7.camel@excellence.kicks-ass.net> <9b0d5f320606150618q25cd2b51v6a2ee6fc951f26b9@mail.gmail.com> <200606151443.42890.jseward@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: VMware Player Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Julian Seward writes: > On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:18, WaxDragon wrote: >> On 6/15/06, kadil wrote: >> > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:10 +0200, Oliver Gerlich wrote: >> > Real world, gui's are just so easy & desirable, especially if the gui is >> > consistent across os's, and part of the original distro. I think >> > take-up would be huge (well huge-er, current takeup is huge) >> >> Some of us appriciate the fact that qemu has no "GUI" per se. ;0) > > Sure. But to 'sell' the project to wider audience, which may be > helpful for its longer term development, a GUI is necessary. For what it's worth, VMware Player doesn't have much of a GUI. It has about five menu items, a couple of buttons, and maybe one dialog box. -- "While the Melissa license is a bit unclear, Melissa aggressively encourages free distribution of its source code." --Kevin Dalley