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

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 22/02/2013 14:46, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 2013-02-22 00:04, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> What's your plan now regarding persistent configuration?
> 
> There are a couple options.  We could use gconf which is the Gnome Way
> of doing it.  That's an application wide setting that isn't really
> configurable outside of the menus.

There are command-line tools to edit it.  It

> We could also extend -display to be parsed via QemuOpts.  -display vnc
> is the hard part here but I think either Paolo or I had a patch at one
> point to do it.  Paolo, was that you?  If not, I can search my branches.

It must have been you.  I converted several other home-grown option
parser, but "-display" was really the only one I hadn't touched.

> If we were using QemuOpts, it could then be configured via the system
> wide config file (/etc/qemu/qemu.conf).  It wouldn't automatically be
> persisted when you clicked the menu though.
> 
>> I'd like to make "Grab on hover" default here as it is how I'm used to work 
>> with
>> SDL, but also other tools like rdesktop. Clicking on some menu item each
>> time I start a guest is obviously no solution.

FWIW I'd be in favor of making grab-on-hover the default.

Paolo