Alexandre Julliard : x11drv: Moved desktop mode handling to the explorer process.

[Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)]

Tony Lambregts wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Module: wine
>> Branch: refs/heads/master
>> Commit: db6608ac9f9bbc2ddd7f8bf201d1387d079dfd5f
>> URL:    
>> http://source.winehq.org/git/?p=wine.git;a=commit;h=db6608ac9f9bbc2ddd7f8bf201d1387d079dfd5f 
>>
>>
>> Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
>> Date:   Mon Mar 27 22:43:03 2006 +0200
>>
>> x11drv: Moved desktop mode handling to the explorer process.
>>
>> Per-application desktop mode settings are no longer supported.  Apps
>> can be launched in a specific desktop window by using:
>>
>>   explorer /desktop=name[,widthxheight] app.exe [args]
>>
>> If the named desktop already exists the app is launched inside it. The
>> default desktop is cleverly named "default".
>>
> So if I understand this correctly all programs will share the same 
> desktop. Is it also true that I cannot specify in winecfg that one 
> program can run full screen and another in a desktop window.
>
> If this is the case we will have a fair amount of crying over this one.
>
> At the very least we need to put a note in winecfg. (preferabley befor 
> next release).
>
> -- 
>
> Tony Lambregts
>
Not in winecfg, but users can always modify their shortcuts to the 
application to run wine with the /desktop command like shown above.  
Doing it that way does conform to windows, so if users liked the old 
way, unfortunately, they are outta luck..


Tom