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This is my plan too. When multiple GUIs will be integrated there will be 
a glue API so that no patches are needed in the QEMU core.

Fabrice.

Lionel Ulmer wrote:
>>So? Fabrice has said that he'll add support got the Win32 GUI directly if some
>>one sends a patch for it ... surely this makes it hard to port to the Linux
>>platform???
> 
> 
> My only problem with that is that I do not wish to see the QEMU code go down
> the #ifdef / #endif hell (with #ifdef X11 / COCOA / WIN32 / .... sprinkled
> anywhere over the code).
> 
> So such patches are great .... if they are based on a framework that make
> adding new display / input / sound drivers painless (i.e. without touching a
> single line of code in QEMU's main code).
> 
>              Lionel
>