Re: [Qemu-devel] GTK UI is now the default

[Anthony Liguori]

Stefan Weil <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 22.02.2013 00:04, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> Since this is a pretty visible change for a lot of people, I thought I'd
>> send a top level note.  The GTK UI is now committed and is the default
>> UI provided it's available.
>>
>> For anyone counting, it's been a little more than 7 years in the making:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/9726
>>
>> If you want to try it, make sure you have the gtk-2.0 development
>> packages installed and the VTE development packages.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> I appreciate that the gtk ui is now available in git master.
> Alas, the current code did not address some issues which
> I had reported earlier. Most important:
>
> * The code does not compile on current Debian Squeeze
> because it requires a newer version of vte:
> /gtk.c:860: error: ‘VtePty’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> and lots of more compiler errors.

I'll spin a patch to disable on older vte libraries.

>
> * There is no w32/w64 support for vte, and it would need
> a really big effort to get a vte binary for those hosts.
> They need a gtk ui without vte.

Have you looked at what prevents vte from building on win32?  Rolling
our own terminal emulation seems a bit insane to me.  It's got to be
easier to do vte for win32.

In the long term, I hope that we make enough of the monitor
functionality exposed through menus that it's really not necessary to
expose a monitor tab anymore.  We could then just disable those tabs on
win32.

So worst case scenario, that could be the plan, but we're certainly not
there yet.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> * New: Ubuntu does not provide /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc,
> so Ubuntu hosts won't compile the new gtk ui.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan