From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fr80Q-0006PP-2t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:40:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fr80O-0006Ot-AP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:40:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fr80O-0006On-0D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:40:32 -0400 Received: from [199.80.85.4] (helo=library.beau.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fr89w-0000BU-Ua for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:50:25 -0400 Received: from mjolnir.library.beau.org (mjolnir.library.beau.org [199.80.85.12]) (authenticated bits=0) by library.beau.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5FLH99j024572 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player From: John Morris In-Reply-To: <44916C36.50505@gmail.com> References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> <4490310D.7060303@gmail.com> <44903504.1070707@gmx.de> <1150357642.5679.7.camel@excellence.kicks-ass.net> <9b0d5f320606150618q25cd2b51v6a2ee6fc951f26b9@mail.gmail.com> <44916C36.50505@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1150406229.3016.10.camel@mjolnir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:09 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:18, Joe Lee wrote: > I appreciate the effort that some are making to develop a GUI for QEMU - > There's a few project I see that trying to achieve this. But, I wish > they all could come together and work together to develop a nice GUI. I > would like to see a sub-project exist in the QEMU site so all can come > and contribute to that effort. Geez, why not ask for world peace while you are at it. One GUI? So which toolkit? Pick Gtk and watch the K folk whine. Ok, so KDE it is. Oops, now the Gnomes are all over ya. And of course since I suspect a non-trivial percentage of QEMU users are on Windows, Solaris, etc. they ain't gonna like either of those choices much. Face it, putting a GUI on something like QEMU is going to require at least a one per desktop/platform effort. And that can best be kept with the GNOME/KDE/etc software repositories because they require constant updating on the schedule of the rest of the desktop environment to stay current. Think of it like mkisofs/cdrecord/growisofs/cdrdao vs the abundance of graphical front ends that all make use of them. Nobody has to totally reinvent the wheel because those solid CLI only parts can be reused by each project and each graphical environment gets a totally native (ok, several) GUI CD/DVD authoring/burning program instead of one crappy ported program. -- John M. http://www.beau.org/~jmorris This post is 100% M$Free! Geekcode 3.1:GCS C+++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ W++ w--- Y++ b++ 5+++ R tv- e* r