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

[Jan Kiszka]

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.

Jan

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