Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new SDL keyboard shortcuts to start and stop VM

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:28:33 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/23/2009 03:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Your answer may be, this is for a developer and they'll be aware of 
> > all the short comings/gotchas but this ends up being a rather 
> > user-hostile interface.  People are never as aware of short 
> > comings/gotchas as we'd like them to be.  If there was no other way 
> > for a developer to do this, I'd be more inclined to find a way to 
> > support this but it's just a matter of writing a script or if you 
> > really need a short cut, you can do it with standard gnome short cuts 
> > or write a very simple vnc client based on gvncviewer (we're talking a 
> > dozen lines of added code) to do this for you.
> >
> 
> vncviewer based displays may work now, but they are inefficient and will 
> likely fall apart if/when we have 3D support.
> 
> I'd much rather see a real GUI client, perhaps implemented by scripting 
> QObjects or QMP.

 A natural step for existing ones, they could also provide a shell by
their own.

 An interesting question is whether we should remove features from the
current shell when the time comes..