[Bug 51230] winecfg: Graphics tab - Per application settings don't work

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51230

--- Comment #8 from subgraph93 at gmail.com ---
As for virtual desktops, in my personal experience, most programs either need a
virtual desktop or don't have any requirements either way. Programs that
absolutely must be outside a virtual desktop are not things I encountered.

However, I'd say virtual desktops are necessarily more disruptive to user
experience than WM-decorated windows (especially for windowed applications),
and there are circumstances where having multiple programs per prefix is
needed, sometimes even concurrently running (not to mention multi-program
prefixes are usually not an issue, at least in my experience), so for
multi-program prefixes I prefer to default to "no virtual desktop" and set
virtual desktops only when needed.

Unfortunately, apparently due to difficulties in adapting Windows "language" to
non-Windows window systems, there are some input issues with Wine and multiple
windows, such as clicks on one window passing through to another or not working
at all if there's another window behind it. Most of the time virtual desktops
help me work around them.

Otherwise, my use case for VDs is mostly for games (especially older games)
that behave weirdly without them. Sometimes it's older games that also do weird
things with screen resolution, so they may even need to have special VD sizes.

I don't have DPI requirements at all, so I can't comment about DPI. I don't
have much information about when the mouse control feature needs to be on or
off, except that it's useful to have it on in some games for proper input
handling (sometimes only if the game is set to use virtual desktop, which is
needed for unrelated reasons).

As for feature removal, I am aware this is a hypothetical possibility in the
abstract. Do you believe it's a practical possibility for this specific
feature?

Also, should the author of the commit that introduced the regression be added
to the CC list? I'm kind of confused regarding what the answer to that is.

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