On Sep 21, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 19 September 2015 at 08:01, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sep 19, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> By the way, I don't mean that I'm completely opposed to the >>> idea of dropping the open-dialog. I'd just like to hear >>> some input from other people who care about OSX QEMU >>> rather than just you and me. >> >> Who else is there? > > Andreas had some feedback on IRC. > > I've thought about this a bit and: > > (1) this "open-dialog if no command line arguments" is really QEMU > trying to provide features that ought to be in a virt-manager > type wrapper, not in QEMU proper. So that's one argument for > dropping it. A proper wrapper VM manager program would obviously > launch its VM management GUI window if started via the GUI (or > would have VM config files that it would associate to itself and > run if the files were clicked). > > (2) Dropping the dialog box brings the OSX UI code closer into > line with the other UI frontends. That means that at some point > in the future we could maybe restructure it so it doesn't have > the weird "UI's main function takes control at startup" structure, > and we can just init the UI in the same way the other UIs do. > > (3) if we don't drop it, we should probably only have it when > we don't see the magic argument that means "we got invoked by > somebody double-clicking the app in Finder". > > Currently I'm leaning towards "yes, just drop the dialog box > completely".
Great to hear.
