Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gtk: Replace bogus term "VGA" with "display"

[Anthony Liguori]

Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2013-02-22 14:21, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Hi Jan,
>> 
>> Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> VGA is a misnomer, only some of our targets have it. Use the more
>>> generic term "display" instead.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Sorry, I responded to your previous note in my head and forgot to also
>> respond on the mailing list.
>> 
>> We expose this "misnomer" a lot.  For instance, qemu -vga cirrus.
>
> That's because qemu started for x86 only. No excuse to spread this
> further in new code.
>
>> 
>> OTOH, the term "display" is used to indicate the backend via qemu
>> -display sdl.
>> 
>> So calling the VGA tab "Display" after selecting '-display gtk' seems a
>> bit confusing to me.
>> 
>> So I'm open to picking better naming but I think we should try to make
>> it consistent throughout QEMU.
>
> We can also call it "screen" or "guest display" - just not VGA,
> please.

I don't care what we call it, I'm asking that if you want to change it
in one place, change it every where else too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Jan
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