Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:26:58 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Add --tui and --stdio to choose the UI
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Em Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 01:47:54PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig escreveu:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:45:11PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Relying just on ~/.perfconfig or rebuilding the tool disabling support
> > for the TUI is too cumbersome, so allow specifying which UI to use and
> > make the command line switch override whatever is in ~/.perfconfig.
> 
> Much better than the current situation, thanks!
> 
> I still thinks commands like perf report should not be overloaded for
> two different user interfaces, that is a
> 
> 	perf report
> 
> should always be the line oriented interface, and the newt UI should be
> something like
> 
> 	perf treport
> 
> Btw, am I the only one that doesn't find the next interface too helpful?
> In general the line oriented interface seem to present the information
> much better, and in the cases where it gets too complicated the newt

Much better how, exactly?

> interface doesn't really helper either.  A real gtk/qt interface with
> a proper tree widget would seem like the more useful interface for that.

What would a gtk/qt interface buy us that is not present on the TUI
right now?

I'm not saying it wouldn't buy something, just interested in what is
this something :)

And yes, gtk/qt interfaces should be added. The experience with the TUI
is helping organize the data structures for that.

- Arnaldo
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