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I'm one of those weirdos who don't like to have different toolkits installed in the system, so I use VirtualBox without qt, a la qemu. It's simple and more beautiful than the ugly non-kde qt themes (I don't understand why the devs don't give the option of installing VirtualBox without the qt interface, like they do with mplayer and other packages; it works great without it and the ebuild only requires some minor changes that I made in 1 minute  ).
Anyway, it would be nice to have a simple gtk interface, especially to mount and unmount dvd images more easily than with the command line. So, does anyone know of one? If not, I'm thinking in writing one, although I only know C/libglade and it should be easier in pygtk, or something like that.
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| Install QtCurve and you'll get a nice Qt theme that looks GTK-ish. You can also get QtCurve for GTK and then your Qt app will match in appearance with all your GTK ones. That's what I do. Everything looks and feels the same and it requires no hackery like gtk-engines-qt. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Nah, I never liked qtcurve (for the few months I gave KDE a try). And it requires kdelibs. If it isn't gtk, I'll continue to use the cli.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Fran wrote: | | Nah, I never liked qtcurve (for the few months I gave KDE a try). And it requires kdelibs. If it isn't gtk, I'll continue to use the cli. |
No, there is a GTK version. Emerge gtk-engines-qtcurve or somesuch. You can always tweak the theme to your liking. It's not that hard to do with GTK themes. |
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You could submit a bugreport asking for such a feature, or at least a design change to allow for a simpler change of interfaces.
Or write a GTK-based wrapper around the cli...
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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As a start, a CLI only ebuild would be quiet nice.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| b3cks wrote: | | As a start, a CLI only ebuild would be quiet nice. |
just needs a useflag for no GUI, that would be good. GTK interface might be interesting though, not a bad personal project. |
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qt4 is a good reason to switch sides. especially pyqt4. being a total programming noob, i was able to write some simple interfaces in no time, which look not a bit worse than gtk.
and the design philosophy of kde seems to have changed, too. im no longer vomiting when looking at one of the new guis.
the toolkit war might be over soon. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| Zepp wrote: | | b3cks wrote: | | As a start, a CLI only ebuild would be quiet nice. |
just needs a useflag for no GUI, that would be good. GTK interface might be interesting though, not a bad personal project. |
This is what I meant, yes.
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Fran
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| b3cks wrote: | | Zepp wrote: | | b3cks wrote: | | As a start, a CLI only ebuild would be quiet nice. |
just needs a useflag for no GUI, that would be good. GTK interface might be interesting though, not a bad personal project. |
This is what I meant, yes. |
Oh, that's easy. This is the diff between portage's virtualbox-1.5.6.ebuild and mine:
| Code: | --- /usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-1.5.6.ebuild 2008-02-26 02:05:35.000000000 +0100
+++ ./virtualbox-1.5.6.ebuild 2008-04-26 12:31:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="additions alsa pulseaudio sdk"
+IUSE="additions alsa pulseaudio sdk qt"
RDEPEND="!app-emulation/virtualbox-bin
~app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-${PV}
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
media-libs/libsdl
x11-libs/libXcursor
x11-libs/libXt
- $(qt_min_version 3.3.5)"
+ qt? ( $(qt_min_version 3.3.5) )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
sys-devel/bin86
sys-devel/dev86
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
fi
./configure \
+ $(use_enable qt) \
${myconf} || die "configure failed"
source ./env.sh
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@
VBoxBFE vditool VBoxSysInfo.sh
doins -r *
- for each in VBox{Manage,SDL,SVC,XPCOMIPCD,Tunctl} VirtualBox ; do
+ local qt_bin=
+ use qt && qt_bin="VirtualBox"
+ for each in VBox{Manage,SDL,SVC,XPCOMIPCD,Tunctl} ${qt_bin} ; do
fowners root:vboxusers /opt/VirtualBox/${each}
fperms 0750 /opt/VirtualBox/${each}
done
@@ -117,7 +120,7 @@
fowners root:vboxusers /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxAddIF.sh
fperms 0750 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxAddIF.sh
- dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VirtualBox
+ use qt && dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VirtualBox
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VBoxManage
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VBoxSDL
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxTunctl /usr/bin/VBoxTunctl
@@ -125,14 +128,16 @@
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxAddIF.sh /usr/bin/VBoxDeleteIF
# desktop entry
- newicon "${S}"/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/images/ico32x01.png ${PN}.png
- domenu "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}.desktop
+ if use qt; then
+ newicon "${S}"/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/images/ico32x01.png ${PN}.png
+ domenu "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}.desktop
+ fi
}
pkg_postinst() {
fdo-mime_desktop_database_update
elog ""
- elog "To launch VirtualBox just type: \"VirtualBox\""
+ use qt && elog "To launch VirtualBox just type: \"VirtualBox\""
elog "You must be in the vboxusers group to use VirtualBox,"
elog ""
elog "The last user manual is available for download at:" |
As for the interface, I'm using this as an excuse to learn python. For now, the gtk interface lists the virtual machines in the system and their state. That's all  .
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Fran wrote: | Oh, that's easy. This is the diff between portage's virtualbox-1.5.6.ebuild and mine:
| Code: | --- /usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-1.5.6.ebuild 2008-02-26 02:05:35.000000000 +0100
+++ ./virtualbox-1.5.6.ebuild 2008-04-26 12:31:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="additions alsa pulseaudio sdk"
+IUSE="additions alsa pulseaudio sdk qt"
RDEPEND="!app-emulation/virtualbox-bin
~app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-${PV}
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
media-libs/libsdl
x11-libs/libXcursor
x11-libs/libXt
- $(qt_min_version 3.3.5)"
+ qt? ( $(qt_min_version 3.3.5) )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
sys-devel/bin86
sys-devel/dev86
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
fi
./configure \
+ $(use_enable qt) \
${myconf} || die "configure failed"
source ./env.sh
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@
VBoxBFE vditool VBoxSysInfo.sh
doins -r *
- for each in VBox{Manage,SDL,SVC,XPCOMIPCD,Tunctl} VirtualBox ; do
+ local qt_bin=
+ use qt && qt_bin="VirtualBox"
+ for each in VBox{Manage,SDL,SVC,XPCOMIPCD,Tunctl} ${qt_bin} ; do
fowners root:vboxusers /opt/VirtualBox/${each}
fperms 0750 /opt/VirtualBox/${each}
done
@@ -117,7 +120,7 @@
fowners root:vboxusers /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxAddIF.sh
fperms 0750 /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxAddIF.sh
- dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VirtualBox
+ use qt && dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VirtualBox
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VBoxManage
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /usr/bin/VBoxSDL
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxTunctl /usr/bin/VBoxTunctl
@@ -125,14 +128,16 @@
dosym /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxAddIF.sh /usr/bin/VBoxDeleteIF
# desktop entry
- newicon "${S}"/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/images/ico32x01.png ${PN}.png
- domenu "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}.desktop
+ if use qt; then
+ newicon "${S}"/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/images/ico32x01.png ${PN}.png
+ domenu "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}.desktop
+ fi
}
pkg_postinst() {
fdo-mime_desktop_database_update
elog ""
- elog "To launch VirtualBox just type: \"VirtualBox\""
+ use qt && elog "To launch VirtualBox just type: \"VirtualBox\""
elog "You must be in the vboxusers group to use VirtualBox,"
elog ""
elog "The last user manual is available for download at:" |
As for the interface, I'm using this as an excuse to learn python. For now, the gtk interface lists the virtual machines in the system and their state. That's all . |
You should submit that as an enhancement. No reason not to...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Dralnu wrote: | | You should submit that as an enhancement. No reason not to... |
Yeah, I'll probably do it. I assumed the devs had a good reason for not adding a qt use flag, but maybe they were just being lazy.
Anyway, this is what the interface looks like right now: http://www.xente.mundo-r.com/narf/img/screens/vboxgtk.jpg
Yeah, I know, I know, it's a bit crappy , but hey, I learned python this morning  (BTW: I'm loving python  )
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Without Qt, do the shortcuts for seamless mode and full screen still work?
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| AM088 wrote: | | Without Qt, do the shortcuts for seamless mode and full screen still work? |
Fullscreen works as usual (<hostkey>+f), seamless doesn't work. Not a problem for me, seamless feels... weird
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| Fran wrote: | | AM088 wrote: | | Without Qt, do the shortcuts for seamless mode and full screen still work? |
Fullscreen works as usual (<hostkey>+f), seamless doesn't work. Not a problem for me, seamless feels... weird |
Seamless doesn't work without QT? Weird, I wonder why?
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| curtis119 wrote: | | Fran wrote: | | AM088 wrote: | | Without Qt, do the shortcuts for seamless mode and full screen still work? |
Fullscreen works as usual (<hostkey>+f), seamless doesn't work. Not a problem for me, seamless feels... weird |
Seamless doesn't work without QT? Weird, I wonder why? |
Maybe it's an ugly qt hack that is difficult to implement in SDL...
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| Fran wrote: | | Dralnu wrote: | | You should submit that as an enhancement. No reason not to... |
Yeah, I'll probably do it. I assumed the devs had a good reason for not adding a qt use flag, but maybe they were just being lazy.
Anyway, this is what the interface looks like right now: http://www.xente.mundo-r.com/narf/img/screens/vboxgtk.jpg
Yeah, I know, I know, it's a bit crappy , but hey, I learned python this morning (BTW: I'm loving python ) |
Looks decent to me.
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| Fran wrote: | | Dralnu wrote: | | You should submit that as an enhancement. No reason not to... |
Yeah, I'll probably do it. I assumed the devs had a good reason for not adding a qt use flag, but maybe they were just being lazy.
Anyway, this is what the interface looks like right now: http://www.xente.mundo-r.com/narf/img/screens/vboxgtk.jpg
Yeah, I know, I know, it's a bit crappy , but hey, I learned python this morning (BTW: I'm loving python ) |
omg it's hideous  j/k. It looks fine for now, will be interesting when more options get added. |
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Looks good.
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Just not to misunderstand you: you wrote this interface or is it shipped with vbox? It's quite nice, athough I would like to be able to access all options. Btw, is there a CLI way of starting VM's?
Btw, QtCurve in QT with custom colors and fonts doesn't look that bad along with Glossy in GTK (still, GTK QtCurve is just awful!). |
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| jabol wrote: | | Just not to misunderstand you: you wrote this interface or is it shipped with vbox? It's quite nice, athough I would like to be able to access all options. Btw, is there a CLI way of starting VM's? |
I'm writing it. I started last Sunday, when this thread started, and today I added some features. And yeah, there is a cli way to do everything (except seamless mode, that seems to require qt), although not many people know about it. Just run VBoxManage or VBoxSDL and take a look at the options. This gtk interface is just a wrapper for the cli.
Right now it's only 450 lines of code, but I'm planning to add the rest of the options (maybe not all, but the most useful; this is only my excuse to learn python, not a large scale project  ).
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