On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:28:33 +0200 Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 03:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > Your answer may be, this is for a developer and they'll be aware of > > all the short comings/gotchas but this ends up being a rather > > user-hostile interface. People are never as aware of short > > comings/gotchas as we'd like them to be. If there was no other way > > for a developer to do this, I'd be more inclined to find a way to > > support this but it's just a matter of writing a script or if you > > really need a short cut, you can do it with standard gnome short cuts > > or write a very simple vnc client based on gvncviewer (we're talking a > > dozen lines of added code) to do this for you. > > > > vncviewer based displays may work now, but they are inefficient and will > likely fall apart if/when we have 3D support. > > I'd much rather see a real GUI client, perhaps implemented by scripting > QObjects or QMP. A natural step for existing ones, they could also provide a shell by their own. An interesting question is whether we should remove features from the current shell when the time comes..