Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> writes: > [quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2014/05/26 at 08:59 -0400] > > I'm sorry for quoting myself, but I'm doing it for context since I have a > question: > >>This patch, attached as qemu-kbddelay-1.patch, is a rework of the former >>curses >>UI patch so that the delay applies to key events in general. A new option, >>-kbddelay [duration=]msecs, controls it. As before, the default is 0, meaning >>no delay, in which case the timer and queue aren't used thus retaining the >>original behaviour. > > I've currently coded it so that there's a new option - -kbddelay. So, we have > the following two options: > > (old) -k <language> > (new) -kbddelay [duration=]<msecs> > > My question is if this is the best way to do it, or if the two options should > be merged. For example: > > -k [language=]<language>,delay=<msecs> > > What do you think?
*If* the feature is deemed useful: better extend -k. We generally prefer extensible options based on QemuOpts to proliferating ad hoc single-purpose options.