Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window

[Stefano Stabellini]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:30:09AM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> I completely agree with Avi: Opengl has been around since 1992, and now
>> you tell me that it is better not to use it because it breaks Compiz?!
>> To say the least it would be a bad long term engineering decision.
> 
> It would be a bad decision *if* OpenGL were the only technical solution
> to the problem. There are a variety of possible solutions with various
> pluses & minuses. If it is possible to do an implementation which uses
> hardware acceleration for scaling to get the same level of performance
> as the OpenGL proposal, it is good sense to evaluate it. Blindly going
> for OpenGL when it has known problems without evaluating alternatives
> would be the bad engineering  decision.


You are right that we have a variety of possible solution each one with
its own pros and cons.
I think removing SDL(+Opengl) for Gtk and Cairo is not a good idea *but*
we could add another Gtk based fronted.
We are already forced to work with multiple frontend because of vnc, so
at this point adding another one won't cause any harm.