Hello. What's the current status of SDL2 and GTK support? Last time I checked and asked, there were some missing pieces in SDL2 compared with SDL1, basically making SDL2 unusable (again, compared with SDL1).
GTK backend, besides the menu, does not add any noticeable functionality to SDL1 interface, but adds a lot of extra dependencies. This, and also the fact that at least initial GTK support was incomplete, was the reasons why in Debian we didn't change default display backend from SDL1 to GTK when qemu changed the default. Now I wonder if we can finally switch to SDL2 and/or to GTK, and maybe even make the display backend dynamically loadable in the same way as block device backends are these days. With loadable display backend it will be the last bastion for many people who are asking for "minimal QEMU for servers" which is supposed to not have any X deps. I started working on loadable display backend a few years ago, but quickly discovered that SDL1 can't be loaded dynamically, at least on some platforms where it substitutes main() function in order to do some initialization (as if there's no support for constructors). So now I'm asking again whenever current GTK and SDL2 supports are complete enough to replace SDL1. Thanks, /mjt
