Am 22.02.2013 07:08, schrieb Stefan Weil: > Am 22.02.2013 00:04, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> Since this is a pretty visible change for a lot of people, I thought I'd >> send a top level note. The GTK UI is now committed and is the default >> UI provided it's available. >> >> For anyone counting, it's been a little more than 7 years in the making: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/9726 >> >> If you want to try it, make sure you have the gtk-2.0 development >> packages installed and the VTE development packages. >> >> Regards, >> >> Anthony Liguori > Hi Anthony, > > I appreciate that the gtk ui is now available in git master. > Alas, the current code did not address some issues which > I had reported earlier. Most important: > > * The code does not compile on current Debian Squeeze > because it requires a newer version of vte: > /gtk.c:860: error: ‘VtePty’ undeclared (first use in this function) > and lots of more compiler errors. > > * There is no w32/w64 support for vte, and it would need > a really big effort to get a vte binary for those hosts. > They need a gtk ui without vte. > > * New: Ubuntu does not provide /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc, > so Ubuntu hosts won't compile the new gtk ui.
Sorry, I was wrong here. There is a /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc which works. Ubuntu still needs a patch for ui/gtk.c (coming with separate mail). > > Regards, > Stefan > > >