From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLmxx-0004NR-S7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:14:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLmxs-0000rE-Sp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:14:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLmxs-0000rA-NQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:14:00 -0500 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 456DCC0ED3E6 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1453274038.11804.5.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:13:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160119153751.GO26662@redhat.com> References: <1453110880.23289.7.camel@redhat.com> <20160119153751.GO26662@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ... List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: David Airlie , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9?= Lureau , qemu-devel Hi, > As a general note though, mixing GTK and threads is really not something > I'd encourage in general. Sure, thats why I think qemu should have *one* ui thread, and that one will be the only one calling into gtk (and also the only one running opengl in case that is enabled). cheers, Gerd