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One thing I'd really like to see fixed is real fullscreen on Mac and
Linux. It's not needed for 5.2 but it's really ugly the way things are
handled now. It's a ton of work (especially on Linux) though.
On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 15:12 -0600, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2015 2:42 PM, SiegeLord <siegelordex@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > My vision for 5.2 rests on largely abandoning the dual branch setup we
> > have right now.
> [snip]
>
> That's all a very good point. I don't object.
>
>
> > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM). webm/vp8 is a lot better than
> > theora as a file format, and is a lot easier to deal with than ffmpeg.
>
> I honestly haven't needed the video add-on so I've completely ignored it to this point. I'll take a look at it this weekend... Not sure if I'll come up with good ideas on syncing (largely unfamiliar with the topic) but I'll get familiar with it anyway. And I'm sure I could replace ffmpeg with webm though.
>
> > - The joystick API is a bit of a quagmire, but it'll also take a lot of
> > work to fix.
>
> I guess you mean order/placement of axes? Is it even possible to fix without a device database? We sure should take a look at it.
>
> > There's obviously tons of bugs around, but they are just bugs. I think
> > the most annoying ones are the window placement bug on multiple monitors
> > on Windows and GLES extension loading support (there's none right now).
>
> OK. I can possibly look into this stuff. Don't want to over commit though since I've not been doing very well lately.
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