Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: run custom script menu item

[Peter Maydell]

On 29 September 2015 at 18:53, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sep 29, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 29 September 2015 at 18:03, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Allow the user the ability to run a custom script file.
>>> This patch adds a menu item called "Run Custom Script".
>>> When the user selects it, a open-file dialog has the
>>> user select a text file with the custom scripts to run.
>>> This allows for virtually unlimited expandability. All
>>> monitor commands should work with this feature.

>> Not a feature I want in the cocoa UI, please.
>
> It can be consider it a poor man's Virt-manager. It is very small
> and light. It can help a lot of people out. I really believe in this
> feature. It can encompass a lot of the GUI features in most
> front-ends. Think about it, the user might never have to enter
> long file paths again with this feature. It makes life so much
> easier for QEMU users.

I simply do not have the time or expertise to review
these patches for significant new OSX UI layer features.
(OSX host support is something I do as a sideline to the work I'm
paid to do on QEMU, and so my time for it is decidedly limited.)

This leaves you with three choices:
 * find another core developer who will review these for you
 * implement them for some other QEMU UI layer on a platform
   which has more people who care about it and thus gets more
   review (ie Linux+GTK or SDL), and then do the OSX UI updates
   second as a "bring in line with GTK" change
 * implement these features in a separate virt-manager for OSX

I can continue to review bugfix patches and similar.

thanks
-- PMM