winequartz.drv Mac OS X UI discontinued?
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 12 21:09:11 CST 2009
Emmanuel Maillard wrote:
>
> Le 3 janv. 09 à 04:14, James McKenzie a écrit :
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I didn't really work on winequartz.drv since this patch, start a new
> version at the beginning of October,
> but more or less waiting for DIB engine.
>
> Emmanuel
Well, I hope your wait will not be long for the DIB engine.
I await the next winequartz.drv release and will keep checking here.
James McKenzie
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