Has any thought been given to enabling backing store on Wine's windows? As it stands now, when you obscure a Wine window, it forces the Windows app to redraw the screen. Many times this is not needed. Perhaps a configuration option to allow certain apps to have backing store on would be useful.
I know that up until a few months ago, it was possible to go into wnd.c and change the default from NotUseful to WhenMapped and things seemed to work well. However, the structure of the X driver has changed, and a simple patch is no longer possible.