[Bug 31374] Steam text invisible with dwrite.dll enabled

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31374

--- Comment #62 from Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> 2013-07-11 04:19:55 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #60)
Issue trackers are for the developers' convenience. In this project, developers
find it convenient to identify regressions when they are actually caused by
issues in the code, rather than new features suddenly being used by the
application. It's 100% irrelevant how Linus or anyone else might react in a
different project.

As for disabling it by default, that's not going to happen. This bug only
affects steam, and not only does steam have a flag to disable dwrite,
dwrite.dll can also be disabled from winecfg.
If you install steam from winetricks, this is taken care of automatically. This
is as convenient as it gets. More noise in this bug isn't going to make the
devs change their mind.

The best things you can do to help it:
 - Buy crossover. The money goes to Wine devs; you might also be able to set up
a bounty on this bug from there. Also I think dwrite might be disabled on Steam
in crossover.
 - Actually work on this bug and submit hard code (I'm sure even tests would
help).

For some reason though, I doubt you'll do either of those things because
*disabling dwrite is extremely easy already* (and a hell of a lot easier than
writing code or shelling out money). There's absolutely nothing wrong with
that, but afterwards you can't come in here all entitled and expect devs to
follow your will rather than how things arrange *them*.

Regardless, this will not make the 1.6 cut. Wine is in the release candidate
stages and that's simply too late for major features like these.

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