On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:09 -0500 John Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:18, Joe Lee wrote: > > > I appreciate the effort that some are making to develop a GUI for > > QEMU - There's a few project I see that trying to achieve this. > > But, I wish they all could come together and work together to > > develop a nice GUI. I would like to see a sub-project exist in the > > QEMU site so all can come and contribute to that effort. > > Geez, why not ask for world peace while you are at it. One GUI? So > which toolkit? Pick Gtk and watch the K folk whine. Ok, so KDE it > is. Oops, now the Gnomes are all over ya. And of course since I > suspect a non-trivial percentage of QEMU users are on Windows, > Solaris, etc. they ain't gonna like either of those choices much. WxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) provides a nice way out of this - provides a uniform API for the application developer, and local look-and-feel for each platform. WxWidgets can sit on gtk, motif, x11, win32, mac, cocoa (doesn't appear to be a qt backend yet, but no reason there couldn't be). > Face it, putting a GUI on something like QEMU is going to require at > least a one per desktop/platform effort. And that can best be kept > with the GNOME/KDE/etc software repositories because they require > constant updating on the schedule of the rest of the desktop > environment to stay current. > > Think of it like mkisofs/cdrecord/growisofs/cdrdao vs the abundance of > graphical front ends that all make use of them. Nobody has to totally > reinvent the wheel because those solid CLI only parts can be reused by > each project and each graphical environment gets a totally native (ok, > several) GUI CD/DVD authoring/burning program instead of one crappy > ported program. > -- Kevin F. Quinn
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