On Sep 19, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 17:12, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sep 14, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >>> Oops, I meant to cc Andreas on this but got the address wrong. >>> >>> -- PMM >>> >>> On 14 September 2015 at 16:43, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >>> wrote: >>>> On 11 September 2015 at 01:49, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>>> 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 <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> 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. >> >> QEMU supported Mac OS 10.3 since that time, but that wasn't enough of a >> reason to keep supporting it. >> >>>> 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. >> >> What if the user finds working with OpenBIOS useful? >> What if the target doesn't support a hard drive? >> The automatic open dialog feature does get in my way when I >> am working with OpenBIOS. >> >>>> 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. >> >> This code is from a time when the x86 target was the only thing people paid >> attention to. If the user forgets to supply any arguments to QEMU, he can >> always just quit QEMU and start again with arguments. > > By the way, I don't mean that I'm completely opposed to the > idea of dropping the open-dialog. I'd just like to hear > some input from other people who care about OSX QEMU > rather than just you and me.
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