Reasons why I don't like emulators - or why xx-UAE is really unusable

[paolone]

2) Mouse grab. This is really anoying. In the window, you have either two mouse pointers, or you have one mouse pointer and do not know how to leave the window. Even if you enter the configuration menu of FS-UAE, you do not have your mouse. What do you do to regain control? I didn't know the magic word (F12+g) so I killed the emulator from a console. Yuck!

Solution: a) If the user clicks into the window, make the "native" mouse pointer non-intrusive. A single point is good enough. If some configuration menu is shown that requires user interaction, un-grab the mouse to allow configuration. And finally, use a well-accepted key-combination for ungrabbing. VMWare has set the standards (Ctrl+Alt), so why the heck not simply use that. Or, at least, show the mapping how to ungrab as soon as the mouse is grabbed. This should be the minimum standard.

a1 - I'd hate to see that point on the screen. I prefer the current solution  most emultators followed to grab the pointer and leave just the guest one.

a2 - I'd kill anyone placing "ctrl+alt" as mouse release hotkey on a emulator, because I'm almost every time using virtual machines in VMware Player already, resulting in a disturbing, continuated loose of the guests pointer. BTW, the "magic key(s) + G" combination for ungrabbing pointer is already popular thanks to the fact the other virtualizers, for instance QEMU, use that.

Not very much to disagree about the rest...

[paolone]

No thanks. If the author doesn't care about Linux, I don't care about the program. I do make exceptions for work and essential programs, but UAE is none of them.

Oh, my God. Please stop this childish attitude.

"I don't like emulator because it doesn't have a key I use"
"so map it to something else"
"but gneeee gneeee it should be theeeereeee!"

"I need it to compile things inside the emulator"
"you can cross-compile them outside of it"
"but gneeeeh gneeeeh it's not the same"

"WinUAE GUI has things FS-UAE hasn't"
"You can run WinUAE on Linux using wine if FS-UAE does not fit your needs"
"but gneeeh gneeeh I don't like it and if coder does not consider Linux, I don't consider his program no matter if I can freely modify it as I wish"

and so on. Really, this discussion doesn't picture you very well. You'd consider stopping it.