Re: KVM usability

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>]

Em Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:35:31AM +0200, Avi Kivity escreveu:
> perf really is wonderful, but to be really competitive, and usable to  
> more developers, it needs to be in a graphical environment.  I want  
> 'perf report' output to start out collapsed and drill down by clicking  
> on a tree widget.  Clicking on a function name opens its definition.   
> 'perf annotate' should display annotations on my editor window, not in a  
> pager.  I should be able to check events on a list, not using 'perf 
> list'.

Do you really think that more kernel developers would use perf more
frequently if it had some GUI?

I plan to work on a ncurses tool combining aspects of the existing perf
tools, integrating them more, like you suggest above, but even having
worked on a pygtk tool that is close to the kernel [1], I'm unsure if
doing it using gtk or QT would be something that would entice more
developers to use it.

- Arnaldo

[1] http://www.osadl.org/Single-View.111+M52212cb1379.0.html