On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:45:24 +0100 Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:21:46AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > > 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). > > Yes, there should be abstraction between the UI and the VM, but I > think that the approach taken by xine, gstreamer, cdrecord, > cdparanoia, etc. is much cleaner. You could still write a frontend > with WxWidgets... > > I think it would be best if QEMU didn't depend on any particular > toolkit, and that includes WxWidgets. I was suggesting WxWidgets as a way to avoid writing separate gui frontends for each platform (that's what WxWidgets is for). I wasn't suggesting WxWidgets be embedded into Qemu (or the other way around for that matter). If you want a pretty controller app and you want to avoid cross-platform issues WxWidgets does a lot of the work for you (much more than just gtk for example). In particular I was responding to the statement > Face it, putting a GUI on something like QEMU is going to require at > least a one per desktop/platform effort. I don't see any reason to hack up qemu just to put a pretty face on it. VNC support already provides an easy way to place the guest screen wherever you want if you don't like the SDL window (although I think SDL remains the best choice for the guest screen). http://code.technoplaza.net/wx-sdl/ talks about combining WxWidgets and SDL, although I don't know if that's useful. -- Kevin F. Quinn _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
