Hello

Please take the following not personal but the huge pent-up frustration constrains me to say a few words.

I've just tested one of my "longest waiting" apps to get working on linux: CorelDraw X3/X4. And I had to see that

it fails already with the same errors. I tooke a short look into the bug database to see all the related bugs:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687 open (not even confirmed) since more than 3 years

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14123 open since 2008-06-25

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3599 open (new) since 2005-10-15

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611 open (new) since 2005-10-17

I know we had this discussion already a lot of times but after six acc.

three years its time for me to say something again.

I know also thats a lot more fun developing directx routines instead of fixing old bugs but

sometimes You should also think about the "other" generality which uses the computer not

just to play games.

It would be understandeable to me if its written in the bug that the fix of this bug will consume a lot of resources and its

impossible to fix this, but just to ignore it is not "the proper way to behave".

I'm sure that there are many more of the above bugs which nobody has has ever took seriously a lock at it.

Has anybody ever imagined how many apps depending on such bugs which prevents them to get running on Linux?

Maybe all of the above bugs are only related to CorelDraw but its also possible that dozens or hundrets of other apps

also fail with the same problems but nobody has ever wrote a bug report or saw it in the bug database and thought

that it will be fixed cause its already reported?

Just take a look at: http://www.inside-it.ch/frontend/insideit?_d=_article&site=ic&news.id=22515

English version: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1122655

The most of their problems where related to special windows apps running only in goverment institutions and where not able to run on Linux (wine).

How many of these problems whould not even ever have been occured if such small bugs like the above whoud be fixed which makes all of those

apps runnable on linux. Sorry to say that but Your politics just to develop things which makes fun or are interesting is also part of the above problem.

Regards

Roland