wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hi there, I want to bring this Issue up in Development Mailinglist. This proplem is about a bug that cant be fixed within wine, and The Bugtracker doesnt help it. I think this Bug is at the moment an Epic Fail of Open Source Development. (And needs to be solved so we get a accepted Fix

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Peter Kovacs wrote: Now Vitaliy Margolen actively stopped the maintenance of this workarounds (in the bug called dirty hacks.), by marking the patches obsolete and changing title. Yes, tried to, of course I can't stop anyone from hacking and posting their work, even on the same bug. All I can

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Remco
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 15:41, Vitaliy Margolen wine-de...@kievinfo.com wrote: Peter Kovacs wrote: So how can we get a proper Fix or point people towards proper fixes? Make Wine use Xi2 (I'm already working on it). Hopefully will have something  available before holidays. Thank you very much

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Austin English
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Vitaliy Margolen wine-de...@kievinfo.com wrote: Peter Kovacs wrote: Now Vitaliy Margolen actively stopped the maintenance of this workarounds (in the bug called dirty hacks.), by marking the patches obsolete and changing title. Yes, tried to, of course I can't

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hi again, Vitaliy this are great news. I will see if I can read a bit more about XI2. :-D Keep going. You will crack that Bug. Ill try to help if i can steal Time from somewhere. But Honestly I am no Hacker. So don't expect to much of me. I am happy if I can solve the hacks vs. patch problem :P

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Ben Klein
2009/12/8 Peter Kovacs leg...@gmx.net: I think Austin is right, stopping Hacks would slow down development. And we need people hacking. Bugzilla is not the right place for hacks. There is a wine-hacks repository (naturally, completely unsupported by WineHQ). If a hack developer wants the hack

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Peter Kovacs wrote: I think Austin is right, stopping Hacks would slow down development. And we need people hacking. I'm not against hacks. I'm against dirty hacks, especially going into bugzilla! What's a dirty hack? Something that adds commented out code, comments out original code instead of