On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:54:06AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > After restarting X yet another time, and having problems finding the > right switch for prboom, I started wondering if it wouldn't be a good > idea to decide an env variable that tells games if they should start by > default in fullscreen or in a window. > > Do you think it makes sense, Of course the real solution is to edit your settings (probably in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, although I'm not sure if SDL uses those) to not use modes it cannot handle. But yes, it also makes sense to have a switch. > and it's worth the effort? Now that's a different thing. To support the switch, we'd need to patch all upstream packages. That's a lot of work. It's probably better to set up general guidelines to do things Right (of which this would be one) and then submit patches to upstream to follow those guidelines. In other words, think big. The reason is that this is a big project anyway, so you can as well make it a bit bigger and do _this_ Right as well. ;-) On the other hand, I don't think many people will follow those guidelines, and so I don't think it'll succeed (due to lack of adoption). Over all, I don't think it's worth the effort. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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