[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 00/22] Add QEMU-like UI: VT console &basic VM state

[Xiaodai Wang]

Sorry, i didn't receive the email of "patch 10/22", but i can find it in virt-tools-list.
I just Added my comments here.

1)
+    vte = gtk_label_new(_("Console support is compiled out!"));

I think the hints could be changed to be more general for all users. It may be hard to understand
for users who don't know programming.

2) I didn't see any copy&paste function, but i see VteTerminal has related APIs. It would be nice 
to implement Copy&Paste function.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "marcandre lureau" <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> To: virt-tools-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 9:24:40 PM
> Subject: [virt-tools-list] [PATCH 00/22] Add QEMU-like UI: VT console &	basic VM state
> 
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> QEMU provides multiple display backend, with different set of
> features. One of the richest UI is the -display gtk. It is quite
> minimal, and comparable to remote-viewer UI wrt fullscreen, zooming,
> grabbing. I haven't done a detailed comparison, but for regular use, I
> prefer the remote-viewer UI. The fullscreen mode has a popup toolbar,
> there is a send-key menu, it provides better desktop integration
> support: USB redirection, folder sharing, more complete multi-monitor
> configuration, screenshot. remote-viewer also allows hotkey
> configuration, and has an experimental "kiosk" mode.
> 
> However, remote-viewer is lacking 2 important features compared to
> QEMU UI: VT console (for serials, and monitors) and basic VM state
> commands (power off, reset, pause..).
> 
> This series add support for VT console over Spice ports, and QMP
> monitor to provide a similar user experience as QEMU -display gtk.
> Another WIP series (fairly small, everything is there already) for
> QEMU will provide a new "-display app" backend, that will configure
> QEMU appropriately, and start remote-viewer (actually any client
> handling spice+unix://). The result is that the "QEMU UI experience"
> is entirely out of qemu code base and process.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Marc-André Lureau (22):
>   remote-viewer: add handling of spice+unix and spice+tls schemes
>   Remove class signal handlers
>   app: simplify toggling visibility
>   window: use virt_viewer_window_set_menus_sensitive()
>   window: move default sensitivity in .ui
>   window: do not reset sensitivity of menu-send in rebuild
>   window: set sensitivity based on display capability
>   display: make klass->close() optional
>   build-sys: check for VTE library
>   Add a VirtViewerDisplayVte display kind
>   window/zoom: deal with VTE display differently
>   display: ignore display that do not have toplevel window
>   session: skip monitor changes if there is no sized monitors
>   app: set subtitle using VTE name
>   app: append VTE consoles to display submenu
>   display: allow display without associated monitor number
>   session: do not take VTE display into account for geometry changes
>   app: create a window for VTE displays
>   spice: hook into port channel to create VTE terminals
>   app: add "machine" UI
>   app: add "vm-running" property
>   spice: hook into QMP port
> 
>  configure.ac                    |  22 ++-
>  data/remote-viewer.desktop.in   |   2 +-
>  src/Makefile.am                 |   6 +
>  src/resources/ui/virt-viewer.ui |  50 +++++
>  src/virt-viewer-app.c           | 197 ++++++++++++++------
>  src/virt-viewer-app.h           |   2 +-
>  src/virt-viewer-display-spice.c |   8 -
>  src/virt-viewer-display-vte.c   | 319 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/virt-viewer-display-vte.h   |  81 ++++++++
>  src/virt-viewer-display.c       |  22 +--
>  src/virt-viewer-display.h       |  14 +-
>  src/virt-viewer-session-spice.c | 284 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  src/virt-viewer-session.c       |  48 +++--
>  src/virt-viewer-session.h       |  30 ++-
>  src/virt-viewer-window.c        | 117 ++++++++++--
>  15 files changed, 1066 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/virt-viewer-display-vte.c
>  create mode 100644 src/virt-viewer-display-vte.h
> 
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> 2.18.0.321.gffc6fa0e39
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