Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu frontend proposal

[Fabrice Bellard]

Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 16:18, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
>
> > Here is proposal:
> >
> > 1) Have an SDL interface which works for all OSes (Linux, Win32, MacOS 
> > X). SDL is useful to have a simple implementation to test a new port.
> >
> > 2) Make a GTK interface for Linux. It must be written in plain C and 
> > integrated in the QEMU CVS (a single C source file containing the UI 
> > might suffice for the first version). The default Linux build will be 
> > this one. I don't see the need of an external frontend or something 
> > written in another language.
>
>
> There is a SDL widget for GTK.  Are you planning to use that at all or
> are you going to re-implement the display (video) using pure GTK/GDK?

Using an SDL widget seems a bit overkill to me. I would prefer to 
reimplement the display in pure GTK/GDK.

Fabrice.