Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 17.05.2010 23:43, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 05/17/2010 04:35 PM, malc wrote:
>> There's one thing that SDL does marvelously well - it's just one fairly
>> small and self contained library that doesn't unleash dependency hell on
>> the user.
>>    
>>> The fact that we have cocoa support in the tree is basically an admission of
>>> failure with SDL.
>>>      
>> I don't think so, the way i see it: someone had an itch (i.e. an
>> application that does not integrate well with his windowing environment)
>> and he scratched it.
>>    
> 
> SDL doesn't integrate well into a modern Gnome desktop either.  I don't 
> see why we have Cocoa and not Gtk.  If the answer is, someone needs to 
> send patches, expect patches soon :-)

So with this argument, we'll not only get a GTK backend, but Qt and
Windows backends, too? But then you can't reasonably say any more that
DirectFB would be too much additional code to maintain.

Kevin