Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/11/2012 01:24 PM, François Revol wrote:
> GTK itself causes problems, because, it's not ported, thus not
> available, to all platforms QEMU can run on.
>
> It's certainly not available on Haiku at least.

There is no perfect solution here.  I think GTK is the best that's out there.

> > > By using GTK, we can leverage VteTerminal for screen reader
> > > integration and font
> > > configuration. We can also use GTK's accelerator support to make
> > > accelerators
> > > configurable (Gnome provides a global accelerator configuration
> > > interface).
>
> Hmm the thing using libvte that uses /tmp to insecurely store terminal
> backlogs ? ;-)

Yeah, I saw it on a blog, it must be true!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


> > As soon as the GTK UI is considered stable and usable, the default
> > could be changed from SDL to GTK.
>
> Due to GTK not being as universally available as SDL, I'd really like
> not to.
>
> François.