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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/12] vl: deprecate -alt-grab and
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To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

  Hi,

> > +@subsection -alt-grab and -ctrl-grab (since 2.12.0)
> > +
> > +The ``-alt-grab'' and ``-ctrl-grab'' arguments are deprecated.  They
> > +work with SDL only.  They will eventually replaced with a new way to
> > +configure hotkeys which works consistently across all user interfaces.
> 
> Should the error message printed to the user document the new interface
> to be used instead? But that implies that we shouldn't deprecate this
> until the new interface for configuring hotkeys has been finalized...

Supporting two ways of specifying hotkeys at the same time isn't going
to fly.  So my plan is to deprecate the old way now, and then some day
in the future drop the old args and support the new ones.

cheers,
  Gerd