Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: Give laptop users ability to scroll in monitor

[Programmingkid]

On Mar 16, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 16 March 2015 at 14:52, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 16/03/2015 15:49, Programmingkid wrote:
>>> Sorry but the GTK interface doesn't work on Mac OS X. We are all hoping 
>>> this will change in the future.
>> 
>> What's the problem?  Was the bug reported?
> 
> Well known and longstanding -- the Cocoa UI assumes it
> is the only thing present (and it hooks itself into
> the startup sequence by overriding main() with its
> own function). Yes, ideally we'd refactor it to work like
> the other UIs, but in practice nobody really wants to
> use anything other than the Cocoa UI on OSX so nobody's
> got round to it.

That sounds about right. I would just like to add that nobody wants to have to 
install GTK and its dependencies after going thru the dependency nightmare that 
is QEMU.