Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
I'm sitting waiting for a couple of compiles to finish, so I thought I'd put together a list of fun/interesting tasks people might like to have a go at related to better integrating Wine with the native desktop. None of these should be especially hard, and so would provide a good intro to Wine development for anybody who has been lurking on the sidelines and wants to get involved. Another suggestion, probably a bigger task: Look for common native applications and write entries for them into the registry. For example, I manually added an entry for KMail in \\Machine\\software\\clients and now I can select Kmail as the default Mail application in the internet options control panel(Which is created when Internet Explorer is installed). My registry entries look like this: [Software\\Clients\\Mail\\Kmail] 1100110998 @=KMail [Software\\Clients\\Mail\\Kmail\\Protocols\\MailTo] 1100110998 @=URL:MailTo Protocol EditFlags=hex:02,00,00,00 URL Protocol= [Software\\Clients\\Mail\\Kmail\\Protocols\\MailTo\\DefaultIcon] 1100110998 @=C:\\Program Files\\Opera\\opera.exe,1 [Software\\Clients\\Mail\\Kmail\\Protocols\\MailTo\\shell\\open\\command] 1100110998 @=\Z:\\usr\\kde\\3.3\\bin\\kmail\ \%1\ With Z: mapped to / I selected KMail as the default Mail application, and when I open an Mail Address in MSIE kmail pops up. The same happens when I enter a maito: address in Task Manager-New task. Cheers, Stefan
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:18:34 +0100, Stefan Dsinger wrote: Another suggestion, probably a bigger task: Look for common native applications and write entries for them into the registry. Yep! Here's another suggestion. Keep them coming guys! :) - Implement a bridge between the Windows registry and the GNOME/KDE configuration systems. If you set the wallpaper in a Windows app it should reflect on your real desktop. This is useful for programs like the WebShots desktop. Actually I already have the code for such a wineshell program in a local tree, for the system tray integration. I'll see if I can get it submitted soon. We could put all this integration stuff there once it's integrated into Wine. thanks -mike
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:56:37 +, Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:18:34 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote: Another suggestion, probably a bigger task: Look for common native applications and write entries for them into the registry. Yep! Here's another suggestion. Keep them coming guys! :) Hi - probably my first comment after lurking here for a few weeks. Is there anything that a user type (I'm not a developer in any sense) can do in this area? I run Windows and have lots of apps I want to run under Wine. I've been entering info as I figue it out in the Wine bug database, but so far that isn't helping me get my programs running. I've wondered a number of times about installing Windows programs under Windows and extracting all of the changed registry entries and then reporting them somehow. Is this possible? I'm not sure the apps I want to run are the ones you all would all 'common', but they are common to follks doing audio work. (recording, writing, etc.) In the end would this be helpful? Thanks, Mark
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 08:35 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi - probably my first comment after lurking here for a few weeks. Is there anything that a user type (I'm not a developer in any sense) can do in this area? I'm afraid they nearly all involve patching Wine, so not with this set of suggestions no. I run Windows and have lots of apps I want to run under Wine. I've been entering info as I figue it out in the Wine bug database, but so far that isn't helping me get my programs running. Right. Unfortunately finding bugs isn't too hard, it's fixing them that's the hard part. I've wondered a number of times about installing Windows programs under Windows and extracting all of the changed registry entries and then reporting them somehow. Is this possible? It is possible. It is unlikely to help in most cases. I'm not sure the apps I want to run are the ones you all would all 'common', but they are common to follks doing audio work. (recording, writing, etc.) In the end would this be helpful? Sure, if you figure out how to make apps work feel free to post information somewhere explaining how, or you could write a little script to automate it as has been done with IE. thanks -mike
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
Another task: Get xscreensaver to respect the registry LowPowerActive setting. Ivan. Libero ADSL: navighi gratis a 1.2 Mega, senza canone e costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
Task 4: Try updating the menu mapping code to support the new XDG menu specification. Don't bother trying to make this work everywhere, it's a total nightmare. Just try supporting the new standards. Be warned: not every desktop/distro supports this yet! This one might be quite hard. wineshelllink support update-menu which itself build xdg complient menu (via /etc/menu-methos/menu-xdg). I know mandrake and debian distro use menu, need confirmation for RH/Novell newest releases. It would be more elegant to let menu manage gnome/kde/xgd/wmaker ... than reimplementing them in wineshellink . The strongest point is that menu build menu via methods which are tweakable by distro builder. Thus it will avoid to upgrade wineshellink whenever we want ot support gnustep xdg version 12 and the like . Cheers Alban
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:14:33 +, Mike Hearn wrote: You may be tempted to use eg, libpng to implement this. Don't! Use GdkPixbuf instead, stock icons are allowed to be in many formats including SVG. Actually it's probably easier to use the new GTK+ APIs to implement this, that takes care of not only rendering the image to a raw bitmap you can then convert to an HICON, but it also implements the icon lookup algorithm for you. In future it'll probably also implement some fancy caching mechanism to reduce memory overhead. Might as well get these benefits easily! thanks -mike
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
On Saturday 27 November 2004 22:14, Mike Hearn wrote: Hint: in modern GNOME desktops you can use the gnome-open program to make this automatic. There is a KDE equivalent. In kde the command is 'kfmclient openUrl url'. -- Diego Flameeyes Petten [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://flameeyes.web.ctonet.it/ pgpuLGH3IVwVa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fun desktop integration tasks
Hi Mike, --- Mike Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Task 1: Map CSIDL_PERSONAL (My Documents) to the $HOME directory if mapped. See the _SHGetDefaultValue function in dlls/shell32/shellpath.c for an explanation of how to do this. You left the most important thing off the list g. I would like to add support to use the draft FreeDesktop trashcan spec. I am working on this a little with one of the ReactOS guys but it will be a while before we have a patch ready. Thanks Steven __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
