Alexandre Julliard : x11drv: Moved desktop mode handling to the
explorer process.
Willie Sippel
willie at zeitgeistmedia.net
Wed Mar 29 04:38:04 CST 2006
Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2006 11:39 schrieb Mike McCormack:
> Willie Sippel wrote:
> > You announced working on the unmanaged window problem in September 2001
> > IIRC, but I guess you didn't so far? Wouldn't, for the time being, a
> > Cedega-like approach be feasible? They seem to ignore 'chromeless'
> > windows and handle them just like regular windows (with window decoration
> > and all, for Steam for example) - this is obviously not correct, but it
> > would at least work 'till someone comes up with a real fix...?
>
> Wouldn't be much motivation for somebody to come up with a real fix if
> there was already a half-baked fix in Wine already, would there?
>
Probably true. But Wine has several problems where a 'real' fix is so very
complicated that we won't see something anytime soon, probably for years to
come (like the DIB engine, planned for years, but nobody seems to even work
on it). In the recent two years, Wine became unusable for many users - I even
know some guys that switched back to Windows because of 'fixes' to Wine that
render lots of application unusable, due to regressions expected when those
fixes were commited. Those 'fixes' should never make it into CVS if there's
not even a realistic timeframe for fixing the regressions.
The WM-rewrite/ broken windowed-OpenGL support is a perfect example, rendering
many applications unusable - stuff that used to work in the past. There are
probably 'easy' ways to hack around the problem (making the old window
handling an option, or maybe create a hybrid that uses extra X11-windows for
OpenGL viewports only), but the proposed 'correct' approaches will most
likely take a few years and/ or kill the performance, if they are even
feasible (GLX extension - completely worthless without ATI/ Nvidia
support)...
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