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

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2013-02-22 15:51, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 2013-02-22 15:17, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> For obvious reasons, -vga has to stay.
> 
> We can introduce a new option that aliases this the -vga option.

No need, the new way is -device <your-favorite-graphic>.

Jan

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