Am 23.10.2009 13:23, schrieb Mulyadi Santosa: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: >> I really hate this "You don't need this, I know it better" attitude. If >> it were only for the technical arguments, okay - I can understand that >> you don't want to add another magic key, and yes, doing it dynamically >> comes with some complexity. But all this talking about "non-existent >> problems" makes me think that you don't... really care about what users >> want if they are the wrong users (yes, I admit, this one is useful more >> likely for developers and plain qemu users than for those running their >> servers in KVM - but they are still users, right?) > > OK, everybody, please calm down.... please remember that this thread > started from my simple patch that wants to implement something that I > personally feel useful. > > So, from both pros and cons side, I try to read and study your arguments. > > Meanwhile, I have another idea. I admit I never redirect Qemu monitor > to certain char device. perhaps, if I could simply write a HOWTO on > how to use this feature to implement simple monitor shortcuts, then it > will be acceptable solution. > > I imagine the steps would be: > 1. redirect monitor to a certain char device > 2. make a script that send commands to this device > 3. bind new KDE or GNOME shortcuts to call this script.
Well, the whole point of a keyboard shortcut was for me to make things easier. Having to pass -monitor with the right magic file, writing a script and assigning a global (!) shortcut isn't exactly what I would call easier. I can keep using the monitor manually on TCP then. Kevin
