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Bug 413743 - app-emulation/vice: Add a USE-flag for the SDL-UI
Summary: app-emulation/vice: Add a USE-flag for the SDL-UI
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2012-04-27 15:39 UTC by Stefan Borschtel
Modified: 2015-02-11 03:18 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Borschtel 2012-04-27 15:39:59 UTC
Please add a USE-flag to enable the SDL-userinterface of the vice-emulator. Although the menu does not support mouse-usage and is a bit hidden since you have to press F12 to open the menu), it offers MUCH more useability. It's fullscreenmode just works in contrast to some bugs/flaws of the current standard Gentoo-build, you can configure the joystick-controller in a much more pleasing way and even add emulator-shortcut-configurations for joystick-buttons.
 IMHO this UI should even be made the standard-interface due to all the additional options. But even if not, then a message should be output after installation to inform the user, that he might want to switch to it.

Additionally an install-message reading that you can open the menu by pressing F12 would be good.

To enable the UI the sourcecode has to be configured/compiled with the "--enable-sdlui" being enabled. I would provide such an ebuild myself, but i barely managed to get it somehow done with dirty hacks for personal usage and don't think that offering it for public makes any sense.

Beside the above I would also welcome a current-svn-snapshot-ebuild (something like "vice-99999.ebuild)
Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2012-04-27 15:56:03 UTC
Please do not conflate several issues in one bug. If want a live ebuild added to the tree, report a separate enhancement bug.
Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-02-11 03:18:14 UTC
sdl is available in vice-2.4.16-r1