Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] qemu-ggi support

[Jim C. Brown]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:53:56PM +0100, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> The many display targets sound nice... but what I'd like to have for
> qemu is a GUI...
> 
> IIRC the GUI patches which were posted so far replaced the SDL driver by
> rendering to a GTK widget, because the current way for embedding SDL
> into GTK seems to be somewhat hackish.

Yes. It is doable, but the methods to do it in X and in Windows are
completely different.

> There have been efforts to create a GTK SDL widget, but I don't know if
> that's usable already.
> 

It is, but it is ugly. And not really x-platform at the time being.

> So how could GGI be integrated with eg. a GTK GUI? Is there a way that
> is more "stable" than the current SDL way?
> 

No. If anything it would be much harder.

> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> 

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