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Am 31.08.2011 um 12:29 schrieb Henri Verbeet:
On 31 August 2011 10:58, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at wrote:
This will break 2D-only apps in situations where OpenGL is not available. It
Well, DirectDraw 2D-only applications, but yes. All three people in that situation should either install a software GL renderer or explicitly set the "DirectDrawRenderer" registry key to "gdi".
My mail is a bit late, but the programs I'm mainly concerned about are Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. If someone wants to play a game in a VNC X server that's a crazy enough setup that setting an extra registry key doesn't matter, but running IE in VNC isn't that unusual.
It will make it impossible to run some apps out of the box(e.g. the ones currently affected by bug 2082, and old QuickTime versions). That's fine with
I'm not sure how this will make it more impossible to fix that bug.
Well, without opengl we can still render to the NULL hwnd, even if it has issues like not working with a compositing Window manager(Windows disables aero when a ddraw app doesn't specify a clipping window). OpenGL refuses to do that.