[Wine] Wine on Mac: subpar experience

[James McKenzie]

doh123 wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>   
>> Do you plan on putting your code back into Wine (that is the stuff that
>> is acceptable to Alexandre)?
>>
>> James McKenzie
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> I'm using stock unmodified Wine... its not what the package is for.  The only modified Wine versions I put together for people are with specific patches they find on the internet... I haven't modified anything that I've kept that would be useful to anyone in Wine.
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> Wineskin is just an easy way to package up a program and make a Mac app out of it, using Wine with a built in X server that handles having a Dock Icon and top menu bar and such...
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> Wine on OSX is such a pain because X11 sucks so bad on it.
>   
Preaching to the choir here...

I really would like it if someone picked up Emmanuel's old Winequartz
code and build a proper front end for the Mac.

X11 and the Mac native interface are not fully compatible and this leads
to problems...

James McKenzie