2009/4/6 Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I agree with Henri here. UseGLSL and OffscreenRendering are >> approaching the point where they don't need to be changed. Detecting >> the amount of video memory should be preferred over setting it >> manually. Most of these settings the users *shouldn't* be screwing >> around with even via regedit (UsefulRegistryKeys could be renamed to >> UsefulIfYouKnowWhatYoureDoingRegistryKeys). >> >> Native DLLs are not approaching the point where they don't need to be >> touched (or at least, not as fast as the D3D settings). There are >> still many cases where native gdiplus, quartz, dinput, d3dx9_## etc. >> are required to get your app working, and having these configurable >> via winecfg provides a *much* easier way to do application-specific >> overrides than doing it manually via regedit. >> >> Of course, it's not me Warren has to convince, but AJ :) > > We've been approaching that point for a while, but we're not there > yet. In an ideal world, winecfg shouldn't be needed at all. But the > fact is that we have it to make adjustments to settings to allow > applications to run. Until D3D is fixed, something like this will make > it easier on the users.
Why not make ALL the UsefulRegistryKeys editable via winecfg? (I'm not advocating it, I'm asking for opinions :) )
