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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On Sep 14, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 11 September 2015 at 01:49, Programmingkid =
<programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Remove the open dialog code that runs when no arguments are supplied =
with
>> QEMU.
>> Not everyone needs a hard drive or cdrom to boot their target. A user =
might
>> only
>> need to use their target's bios to do work. With that said, this =
patch
>> removes
>> the unneeded open dialog code.
>>=20
>> Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <programmingkidx@gmail.com>
>=20
> I admit to not being much of a fan of this feature of the
> Cocoa UI, but it has been in QEMU's OSX UI since 2005.
> In particular, if you remove it then double-clicking to
> start QEMU from the Finder won't do anything useful, and
> you now have to start it from the command line.
>=20
> I agree that it does somewhat assume the x86-centric
> "just provide a disk image" semantics, but it's not clear
> to me that the most appropriate way to deal with this is
> to just rip the dialog box code out entirely.

What does QEMU do when it is launched under Linux with no arguments =
supplied?

If you decide to keep the code, could it be fixed so that it compiles =
under
GCC 4.9?=