From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EF17I-0004HO-3a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:05:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EF17G-0004Gi-50 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:05:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EF15h-0003kL-UY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:04:13 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EF0mB-0004US-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:44:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:43:54 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU 0.7.2 Message-ID: <20050913024354.GA21668@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <431B2E78.9020902@bellard.org> <20050908141852.GA26873@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: kmagnum@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:55:14PM -0400, Karl Magdsick wrote: > > (SDL is more-or-less considered obsolete in general, iiuc Fabrice wants the > > windows port of qemu to use the Win32API natively to handle graphics, while > > on *nix systems an X toolkit (such as Qt or GTK) is preferred.) > > Out of curiosity, has GTK on Win32 been considered? > > > -Karl > Yes, but many primary Windows users (those who use Windows as their main OS) have objections. Things such as: GTK libs and friends are too large just for qemu, that having to install them would confuse a newbie user, using the native win32 GUI will look more natural, etc. I believe that Fabrice prefers a native win32 GUI but he is ok with using a GTK GUI on Windows. (Basically, he just wants something that is functional.) The GTK code I wrote should work equally well when compiled on Windows, though I currently don't know anyone who uses it there. (My one tester reported that the computer he had installed qemu on had some sort of hard disk failure iirc.) -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.