winequartz.drv Mac OS X UI discontinued?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 2 21:14:34 CST 2009


Emmanuel Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 4 juil. 08 à 12:37, Adam Strzelecki a écrit :
>
>   
>> Hi Emmanuel, hello Wine developers,
>>
>> Latest WineQuartz.drv patch is 0.9.58. Is there any change for more  
>> recent release? I tried this patch with 1.0-1 however it has too  
>> many conflicts.
>> It would be most convenient if you had just update http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/winequartzdrv.git 
>>  to match 1.1.0 somehow and include Quartz.
>>     
>
> I resolved conflicts for wine-1.0, but didn't take a look yet for  
> wine-1.1.0, i just know that's some changes in user32 and winex11.drv
> have to be update in winequartz.drv too.
>
> I will see this week end if i can find free time to make a new patch  
> for winequartz.drv and send it to SourceForge.
> (OpenGL is broken in winequartz.drv actually, because of a lack of  
> time to fix it)
>
>
>   
>> Since Wine passed 1.0 (woohoo!) maybe someone from the direction can  
>> revise Mac support? Even there're numerous Emmanuel efforts to  
>> provide Mac UI driver instead of X11, it will be always pushed  
>> aside, and sentenced to death, because it is not in official sources.
>>
>> I know Alexandre Julliard's decision about NOT taking any Objective- 
>> C sources (.m) into the Wine, but maybe this can be revised, anyway  
>> all .m rules will be only present on Mac platforms. Using Objective- 
>> C is only way to make fair support for Mac OS GUI, as those whole  
>> GUI system is objective.
>> Moreover then what's the point of keeping winex11.drv and all GUI  
>> driver infrastructure in Wine if nothing else but X11 is NOT  
>> accepted into official source?
>>
>> Forgive me what I say now, but I just it would be more fair if  
>> someone from Codeweavers just said that Wine's official support for  
>> Mac OS X is against their business with CrossOver and this is the  
>> real reason they reject winequartz.drv from Emmanuel Maillard.
>> Frankly I'd really pay for CrossOver or Wine, if it was what 1.0-1  
>> is but with native Mac UI, so each wine process has it's own dock  
>> icon, and no X11 is needed and native Mac font system.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -- 
>> Adam Strzelecki |: nanoant.com :|
>>
>>     
>
>
> Cheers
> Emmanuel
>
>   
Emmanuel:

What is the status of winequartz.drv?  It looks like your last patch was 
for 1.1.2.

James McKenzie




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