[Bug 2398] Application interface (LightWave 3D) completely unusable

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2398





------- Additional Comments From phil at ldex.terica.net  2005-29-09 21:24 -------
Ouch. That's really unfortunate (to put it kindly). I *really* wish that the new
window management system had been implemented alongside the older system,
possibly with a command line switch or environment variable to set the mode to
be used. At least that way those with apps affected by this change wouldn't now
be completely blocked from using newer wine releases.

This genuinely sucks and the wiki 'solutions' don't seem particularly ideal. Is
there no hope of getting the old WM code put back in for legacy support until
the new WM code is working for these affected apps? This impacts CXO/Codeweavers
as well, making everything after their 3.0.1 release unusable for apps affected
by this issue. That's a lot of breakage to be shipping in Wine 1.0 and
commercial products based on Wine (which pay some of the developers to work on
Wine, let's not forget).

If nothing can be done with the current code (or by simply having two wine
versions - one with the new window manager code and the other with the old
implementation), could packagers be encouraged to provide working legacy
packages based on the last-known-good January source (e.g. wine-legacy) for
current distributions? That would allow for easy side-installation of the new
Wine and the old Wine without too much hassle for end-users.

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