On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: > Am 20.10.2009 19:08, schrieb Daniel P. Berrange: >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:40:08PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: >>> Am 20.10.2009 00:20, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>>> Mulyadi Santosa wrote: >>>>> IMO, it would be faster if we provide keyboard shortcuts that will >>>>> stop and resume VM execution right from SDL guest interface, rather >>>>> than switching to console monitor first and type "s" or "c" >>>>> respectively. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Is this really common of an operation that you would need an escape key >>>> for it? >>>> >>>> Why are you so frequently stopping and continuing a guest? >>> >>> Why are you all trying to explain to him that actually he doesn't want >>> to have this feature? I could have used it, too, at times (stop the >>> guest to have enough time to attach gdb, for example). There are other >>> ways to do it (although they are not as simple) and I used them, but >>> that doesn't make this feature less useful. >>> >>> Does it take anything away for you? Or do you have plans to use those >>> keys otherwise? If not, why not add a feature that some might find >>> useful, even though others don't? >> >> The problem with adding lots of magic key-sequences, is that the more >> you add, the more likely they are to clash with something that the >> guest OS wants to use. You may make this use case work, but break >> someone else's use case. Thus, IMHO, magic key sequences should be kept >> to the bare minimum neccessary to access functionality for which there >> is no other viable access method. > > Ok, you have a point there. But why do we have key sequences for > fullscreen and resizing the SDL window back to its original size then? > Both are things that could be accessed through monitor commands as well. > And you don't need the right timing for resizing the window - unlike > stopping the VM. So I would be really happy with swapping those for a > "stop VM" shortcut.
Why don't we provide a mechanism to make a macro out of a sequence of monitor commands, and let the user assign whatever he wants out of that? -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
