From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqs8X-0003RU-RJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:43:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqs8U-0003Qu-96 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:43:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqs8U-0003Qr-1u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:43:50 -0400 Received: from [81.103.221.49] (helo=mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqsHs-0002rA-UT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:53:33 -0400 Received: from aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060615134348.PEXK27969.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:43:48 +0100 Received: from suse10.valgrind.org ([82.21.96.252]) by aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060615134348.PURF19763.aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@suse10.valgrind.org> for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:43:48 +0100 From: Julian Seward Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:43:42 +0100 References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <1150357642.5679.7.camel@excellence.kicks-ass.net> <9b0d5f320606150618q25cd2b51v6a2ee6fc951f26b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9b0d5f320606150618q25cd2b51v6a2ee6fc951f26b9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606151443.42890.jseward@acm.org> 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 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) > > > > Kim > > 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. Usability engineering isn't as much fun as hacking the JIT, or whatever, but in the end usability counts. A lot. J