Versions & mass-appeal

Dimitrie O. Paun dpaun at rogers.com
Wed Oct 30 16:27:48 CST 2002


On October 30, 2002 05:01 pm, Francois Gouget wrote:
> I think desktop mode is useful in some circumstances like when you want
> to prevent an application from taking over the whole screen (typically
> installers or the PowerPoint viewer).

While it may be useful in strange circumstances, it's not the right thing
to do. How would you invoke it? What about other non-Wine apps that
are taking over the screen? Should they have a desktop mode? And if we
go down this path, what next: use ptrace to enhance Wine's security?!?

-- 
Dimi.




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