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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code |
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Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:49:02 +0100 |
Oops, I meant to cc Andreas on this but got the address wrong.
-- PMM
On 14 September 2015 at 16:43, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11 September 2015 at 01:49, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Remove the open dialog code that runs when no arguments are supplied with
>> QEMU.
>> Not everyone needs a hard drive or cdrom to boot their target. A user might
>> only
>> need to use their target's bios to do work. With that said, this patch
>> removes
>> the unneeded open dialog code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <address@hidden>
>
> I admit to not being much of a fan of this feature of the
> Cocoa UI, but it has been in QEMU's OSX UI since 2005.
> In particular, if you remove it then double-clicking to
> start QEMU from the Finder won't do anything useful, and
> you now have to start it from the command line.
>
> I agree that it does somewhat assume the x86-centric
> "just provide a disk image" semantics, but it's not clear
> to me that the most appropriate way to deal with this is
> to just rip the dialog box code out entirely.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Programmingkid, 2015/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Programmingkid, 2015/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Peter Maydell, 2015/09/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Programmingkid, 2015/09/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Peter Maydell, 2015/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Programmingkid, 2015/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Peter Maydell, 2015/09/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Programmingkid, 2015/09/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Programmingkid, 2015/09/16
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code, Peter Maydell, 2015/09/23