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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 16:18, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> 
>>Here is proposal:
>>
>>1) Have an SDL interface which works for all OSes (Linux, Win32, MacOS 
>>X). SDL is useful to have a simple implementation to test a new port.
>>
>>2) Make a GTK interface for Linux. It must be written in plain C and 
>>integrated in the QEMU CVS (a single C source file containing the UI 
>>might suffice for the first version). The default Linux build will be 
>>this one. I don't see the need of an external frontend or something 
>>written in another language.
> 
> 
> There is a SDL widget for GTK.  Are you planning to use that at all or
> are you going to re-implement the display (video) using pure GTK/GDK?

Using an SDL widget seems a bit overkill to me. I would prefer to 
reimplement the display in pure GTK/GDK.

Fabrice.