Re: App Database Ratings

2009-01-03 Thread M.Kiesel
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Keith Muir wrote: Recently read the thread on the poor quality of the ratings but changing the wording isn't going to have much of an effect. A properly structured questionnaire that then suggests a rating will. Something like a simple rule-based system (platinum =

Regression: Sound broken in PoP series

2008-12-23 Thread M.Kiesel
Hi! The following commit breaks sound in (at least) Prince of Persia SoT and PoP TWW. Reece, let me know how I can help with that. commit ce06de420874b9983324508f8257a580fee341ca Author: Reece Dunn mscl...@googlemail.com Date: Mon Dec 22 13:33:43 2008 + dsound: Correct the dsound

Re: winecfg: Disable nonfunctional advanced drive settings

2008-12-22 Thread M.Kiesel
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote: In the winecfg drive tab, advanced drive settings (setting label and serial) seem to be broken currently due to other Wine bugs (see drive.c apply_drive_changes comments). Disable these settings for now since this only confuses users. [...] Rather

Re: AppDB rating definitions, was: Re: Canonical and wine

2008-12-16 Thread M.Kiesel
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote: What about clarifying the wording on http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?sTopic=maintainer_ratings ? My suggestion for Platinum: Application installs and runs flawlessly completely/at highest settings 'out of the box'. No changes required in winecfg.

AppDB rating definitions, was: Re: Canonical and wine

2008-12-15 Thread M.Kiesel
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote: If I had a nickel for every times I've seen platinum and gold ratings for apps that had dozens of native dlls or complicated scripts to work around wine bugs, I'd be a much richer man. What about clarifying the wording on