From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrDhf-0006on-0B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:45:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FrDhd-0006o9-83 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:45:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrDhd-0006o5-3V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:45:33 -0400 Received: from [81.103.221.49] (helo=mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FrDrF-0003B4-F9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:55:29 -0400 Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060616124529.BOBI27969.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:45:29 +0100 Received: from miranda.arrow ([213.107.21.212]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060616124528.QIIT16086.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@miranda.arrow> for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:45:28 +0100 Received: from sdb by miranda.arrow with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FrDhU-00078X-Tg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:45:24 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:45:24 +0100 From: Stuart Brady Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player Message-ID: <20060616124524.GA27422@miranda.arrow> References: <1150406229.3016.10.camel@mjolnir> <20060616092146.5c9e8ced@c1358217.kevquinn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060616092146.5c9e8ced@c1358217.kevquinn.com> 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 Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:21:46AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > WxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) provides a nice way out of this - provides > a uniform API for the application developer, and local look-and-feel for > each platform. WxWidgets can sit on gtk, motif, x11, win32, mac, cocoa > (doesn't appear to be a qt backend yet, but no reason there couldn't > be). Yes, there should be abstraction between the UI and the VM, but I think that the approach taken by xine, gstreamer, cdrecord, cdparanoia, etc. is much cleaner. You could still write a frontend with WxWidgets... I think it would be best if QEMU didn't depend on any particular toolkit, and that includes WxWidgets. -- Stuart Brady