On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 02/19/2012 08:52 PM, Brad Smith wrote:
On 19/02/12 9:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 02/19/2012 08:24 PM, Brad Smith wrote:
On 19/02/12 8:10 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
If not, it will be nice to keep
SDL because GTK huge and not that portable for win32 users.
Neither are true. GTK is a reasonably small dependency especially given
that GLIB is a mandatory dependency. I can't imagine that in terms of
binary size, libsdl is much bigger than gtk/gdk.
Double check your facts. That's not even close to being true.
SDL is a tiny fraction of Gtk+.
Just as an example taking a look at package sizes..
549KB for SDL vs 17.3MB for just Gtk+ and its dependencies (7 libraries)
excluding Glib2 and what it depends on.
I don't see how 17.3MB qualifies as "huge".
It's FAR from small not to mention dragging in A LOT of libraries for what?
A prettier looking UI?
An accessible UI that meets the most basic definition of usable. Sit someone
down with the SDL interface for the first time, how in the world are they
supposed to figure out that you hit Ctrl+Alt+2 to get to a command prompt?
I think that having a GTK UI is quite important for QEMU and having it
be the default is also a good idea.
BUT we should not deprecate and plan to remove SDL.