From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6v3A-00065X-Rl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:31:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6v39-0002Sa-4G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:31:52 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:54323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6v38-0002S6-UU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:31:51 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e31.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:31:47 -0600 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C62C90057 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q2C2Vhkn310832 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:31:43 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q2C2Vgs1011233 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:31:42 -0600 Message-ID: <4F5D600B.6040709@us.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:31:39 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1330299995-8688-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4F5CE0E4.2090902@weilnetz.de> <4F5CEDE0.50302@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <4F5CEDE0.50302@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Revol?= Cc: Kevin Wolf , Stefan Weil , Alex Graf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini On 03/11/2012 01:24 PM, François Revol wrote: > GTK itself causes problems, because, it's not ported, thus not > available, to all platforms QEMU can run on. > > It's certainly not available on Haiku at least. There is no perfect solution here. I think GTK is the best that's out there. >>> By using GTK, we can leverage VteTerminal for screen reader >>> integration and font >>> configuration. We can also use GTK's accelerator support to make >>> accelerators >>> configurable (Gnome provides a global accelerator configuration >>> interface). > > Hmm the thing using libvte that uses /tmp to insecurely store terminal > backlogs ? ;-) Yeah, I saw it on a blog, it must be true! Regards, Anthony Liguori >> As soon as the GTK UI is considered stable and usable, the default >> could be changed from SDL to GTK. > > Due to GTK not being as universally available as SDL, I'd really like > not to. > > François. >