On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: > Am 16.12.2016 um 09:26 hat Thomas Huth geschrieben: >> On 15.12.2016 20:19, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:15:27PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:25:50PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> >>>> Do we fix this or disable SDL altogether? >> >>> >> >>> Well, it can't be *that* bad, otherwise it would not went unnoticed for >> >>> a whole release cycle. >> >> >> >> That's what I'm saying, maybe no one uses SDL anymore. >> >> It's maybe not as common as the GTK interface, but as far as I know >> people still use the SDL interface. For example here: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/922076 >> >> ... so I would recommend to keep the SDL code in QEMU. > > When I actualy use qemu rather than just doing a quick test, I generally > prefer SDL, too, because the GTK frontend still grabs some keys like F10 > for itself instead of passing them to the guest. And using HMP for > something as simple as that - no, thanks. > > Kevin >
I'd like to also point to the recent status report by Stefan Weil concerning UI support in Windows builds: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-12/msg01383.html At least for PPC Mac OS/OSX guests only the SDL1.2 UI is somewhat usable, GTK2/3, SDL2 and VNC are all problematic. Best, Howard
