Monday, March 27, 2006, 3:17:12 PM, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote:
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=db6608ac9f9bbc2ddd7f8bf2...
Author: Alexandre Julliard julliard@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).
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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
Ok so now say with Steam and all of it's games - it will be almost 100% unusable! Because we still haven't fixes managed/unmamaged windows. And Steam itself would be on top of everything. So the way people were able to work-around this is by putting Steam into virtual desktop. Now that means their game will run in the same desktop as well.
We really really really have to fix managed/unmanaged mode then. I can't even imagine how many people will stay with current or older Wine because of this patch.
Also I remember some users were using other two parameters of the desktop (top left corner - changing manually in the registry). I didn't seen anything that indicates they are still supported with this patch.
Vitaliy