Start Programs reg entry

A while back there was a bug reported because certain installers looked in the registry for the path to the programs menu, and when they couldnt find it, they would abort the install. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2765 The bug was closed once a patch was committed.. Seems that now, w

Re: [SOC] ASIO

Paul Millar wrote: Hi Tom, On Tuesday 25 Apr 2006 19:05, Tom Spear wrote: On 4/25/06, Paul Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, this looks to be amenable to a clean-room implementation. [...] I don't see any reason why that couldn't work. We could combine that test suite wit

Re: HTML e-mails

KGJ wrote: Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Monday, April 24, 2006, 8:32:14 PM, Segin wrote: Vitaliy Margolen wrote: I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these wonderful HTML messages. People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Joseph Garvin wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 17:30 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: I'd like to know exactly what it is that people find so convenient about forums. A lot. If forums are made, they should be user, not developer, targeted. Normal users, as opposed to power hackers, prefer fo

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Jonathan Ernst wrote: Le dimanche 23 avril 2006 à 12:41 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) a écrit : But I still want to get certain threads delivered to my mailbox, so I suffer thru all the ones I don't read. Where if I subscribe to a forum thread, then I get all pos

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

n0dalus wrote: On 4/24/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fine whatever.. Personally I dont like having to keep an irc client open, but i would be more inclined to do so if we had our own server... Then we could do java irc from one of the web

Re: [Wine] Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

n0dalus wrote: On 4/24/06, deedee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forums can tend towards cliques. So-called "popular" forums, especially, can have this quality -- because popularity frequently equates to regulars who always show up and post. In a way this holds for mailing lists as well, b

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

Molle Bestefich wrote: Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: If solution 3 ever takes off, I will gladly contribute with coding. Realistically, though, i cannot implement something like this all by myself, especially not in any kind of a timely fashion. I can contrib some

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Jeremy Newman wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 11:40 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: It doesn't make sense to not have a universal login for the entire site, and even you complain about it.. Just curious, but why are we not able to fix that? Nobody has tak

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Kai Blin wrote: * "Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23/04/06, 13:00:51]: See directly below.. People see all of these choices on where to go to get help, but dont like any of them (dont want to be flooded with emails, dont want to search the

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Kai Blin wrote: * "Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23/04/06, 11:40:39]: Yes you do, but personally I hate the appdb, and im rarely ever going to pull up irc even though it is installed, because i dont like having to switch network

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Peter Åstrand wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: You can't reply to the archives.. you still have to sign up for the mailing list. I don't like having my inbox flooded with emails from the devel and bugs lists. If I go to a forum, I see a

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Dimi Paun wrote: On Sat, April 22, 2006 9:45 pm, Molle Bestefich said: Can you explain what's so different between Google and a forum search? That's pretty obvious: the Google search is just a lot better. Remember when we used to offer our own search on WineHQ? It sucked so badly it wa

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Molle Bestefich wrote: Scott Ritchie wrote: This makes perfect sense to me: I _hate_ mailing lists, especially the kind that I have to subscribe to in order to post - it's far easier to run a search on a web forum (rather than googling the list archives), Can you explain what's so diff

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

Segin wrote: Why aren't I offering suggestions? I did offer one. The rest are beyond our control. To attempt to fix those would be as intelligent as sticking your hand into a boiling pot of water. Let's look at that last one, the sticky thing. This usually means to have a email highlighted in

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

Molle Bestefich wrote: Hi I've tried to sum up the problems with the wine-users mailing list that are urging many people to call for a forum.winehq.org. I hope it's useful. Problems 1) Cannot post without configured mail client 2) Browsing old topics and replying/posting new ones

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Jeremy Newman wrote: Currently the WineHQ server really does not have much space left over. Alexandre and I have had a few issues with the box running out of hard drive space. I offered space on my box, so space shouldn't be an issue. We need to know if this is really needed. Is providing a

Re: PROT_EXEC mmap/mprotect, i386 PAE + NX broken, x86-64 2.6.17-rc2

Jesse Allen wrote: On 4/22/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:12:06 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Well, I'm using a "modified" game executable which does not check for the presence of a CD. However, it hooks into the original game executable so that

Requested change in bugzilla

Hi all, just posting this publicly for anyone that wants to either second this idea or shoot it down :-). Jeremy, one of my biggest (minor) nits about using Bugzilla is the component box. It isn't very user friendly.. What I mean is that a lot of the components are rarely (never?) used whil

Bug 5112 - Explorer (wine builtin) fails when run with no command line args

Hi everyone, just a simple question. According to this bug, winefile and explorer are bit-by-bit identical, but yet 1 crashes when run with no command line, while the other does not. As the subject of this email says, explorer crashes but winefile doesn't. This particular has no problem with

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Molle Bestefich wrote: David Shaw wrote: Actually, "sticky" posts are ones that don't or can't get deleted Aha. So people usually delete posts from bulletin boards after some time? Who decides what gets deleted, an administrator or the postee, time, or?... That's a feature that would

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Mike Hearn wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:49:15 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Well, it's not like non-forumers would be banned or anything :) Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its content is lost; not so f

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Molle Bestefich wrote: Paul wrote: No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. I feel the same. I'd like to know exactly what it is

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

Dan Kegel wrote: Mike Hearn wrote: [Let's set up web forums for wine users] I dislike the thought of having to monitor multiple forums. Worse still, if a particular web forum goes offline, all its content is lost; not so for mailing lists, which are archived in multiple locations and s

Re: What version of freetype are we requiring these days

Bill Medland wrote: I have just noticed that configure is telling me "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" Why does it think that? (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) Is fontforge installed? You need both.

Re: SOC project

Kai Blin wrote: * Kai Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17/04/06, 20:44:30]: Now what I wanted to as was the following. I've recently started to look into the GENSEC library samba4 has to implement SSPI authentication and signing/sealing, as the latter is impossible to do with ntlm_auth. Now, would

Re: SOC Idea: Easy usage of native DLLs in Linux programs

Dan Kegel wrote: On 4/18/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so IMHO this one shouldn't be judged on whether it gets checked in or not but rather whether it works and how easy it is to use. I wouldn't put it that way. I'd continue "and if it clearly makes the world a happy place

Re: AutoCAD in Linux

Alexander N. Sørnes wrote: Uwe Bonnes skrev: "Richardson" == Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richardson> Hello! Richardson> My name is Richardson and I am from Brazil and I am needing Richardson> to know how I can install the AutoCAD r14 and AutoCAD 2000 Ric

Re: [SOC] ASIO

Willie Sippel wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. April 2006 11:56 schrieb Christian Gmeiner: What is ASIO? ASIO is a driver interface for pro-audio apps developed by Steinberg. It's somewhat similar to our beloved Jack sound server, but not as advanced. I thought about implementing ASIO for wine so we

Re: Wine Front-End development

Karl Lattimer wrote: The point here is that if someone is willing to install wine, chances are they will have all the libraries required for it on a unix system, Isn't this how we are running into the font problems by requiring fontforge? Just because it is available and a user can and wan

Re: Coverity doing scans of Wine codebase!

James Hawkins wrote: On 4/6/06, Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, that was a bit over-enthusiastic. A few of these are more tricky. EG: Of the possible bugs I've seen so far, most of them are valid and worth fixing, but the checker stumbles over WideCharToMultiByte. The check

Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Wine

Ben Chelf wrote: Hello Wine Developers, As some of you may have heard, last month Coverity set up http://scan.coverity.com as a site dedicated to scanning open source projects for defects. In just 1 month, over 4500 defects have been examined by various open source developers, and from what

Re: Invisible fonts regression

Troy Rollo wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:31, Troy Rollo wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: I dont know if this will help, but it is worth a shot... Install fontforge from fontforge.sourceforge.net Actually it looks like

Re: Invisible fonts regression

Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: I am no longer able to see fonts in: - the GTA installer - for example on the intial screen ("What language to use?") - Steam (*with* Tahoma previously installed and working). When selecting menus fonts will flash quickly making the menu visible, and then disappear. In a

Re: compile error

MF wrote: Tom, Robert, First and above all thanks for your kind answers. First time I post for help (I usually get myself out of trouble by reading other people's q&a) and I was touched by the "net magic"... Installing the ia32-libs-dev package and running the uninstall / install procedure supr

Re: [Bug 4979] New: wine .9.11 make fails on AMD64

Wine Bugs wrote: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4979 Summary: wine .9.11 make fails on AMD64 Product: Wine Version: 0.9.11. Platform: PC-x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priori

Re: What's uuid 33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393?

Dan Kegel wrote: http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=33ad4ed2 turns up seven apps which fail with errors like fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_FindConnectionPoint no connection point for {33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393} http://www.google.com/search?q=33ad4ed2-6699

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

Kai Blin wrote: * "Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02/04/06, 09:36:53]: Marcus Meissner wrote: Also I don't particularly like the reply-to setup here, can't it just be munged back to the list, rather than replying to an indivi

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

Segin wrote: I never see ANY of the posts I make once I make them. Could be a setting of my email client to not fetch email I sent myself, but seems unlikey cause GMail's web interface never claims to have anything from myself. I think GMail drops mails sent by your own account (does the same

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

Marcus Meissner wrote: Also I don't particularly like the reply-to setup here, can't it just be munged back to the list, rather than replying to an individual? Everyone else is fine by it. Actually I'd prefer it to only reply to the list as well.

Re: compile error

MF wrote: Hi, System: Dell Power Edge 830, Intel Dual Core, Linux Ubuntu 5.10, 64 bits version Tried to compile Wine with the ./tools/wineinstall as per recommended procedure in readme file, from sources package downloaded with apt-get build-dep wine and apt-get --build source wine wich did not

Re: Keyboard Rewrite

Derek Fawcus wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:59:58AM -0600, Tom Spear wrote: Ok. Are these outputs that you are giving us what the keyboard shows under a native app, Those are what one gets under native X, if one runs xev or what they currently show under wine? What layout do

Re: Software Freedom Conservancy

Jeremy White wrote: No objection from me.. Although, I should mention that I haven't seen much in the way of a link to donate to the project. Theres no link on the main page anywhere that I can see. Perhaps the fund would be a little bigger if it was easier to find a donate link? Hmm.

Re: Alexandre Julliard : x11drv: Moved desktop mode handling to the explorer process.

Tony Lambregts wrote: Alexandre Julliard wrote: Module: wine Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: db6608ac9f9bbc2ddd7f8bf201d1387d079dfd5f URL: http://source.winehq.org/git/?p=wine.git;a=commit;h=db6608ac9f9bbc2ddd7f8bf201d1387d079dfd5f Author: Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Re: What is the reason to use GL_FRONT_LEFT in wglMakeCurrent()

Tomas Carnecky wrote: I don't know if it even runs.. I mean, if it works correctly. http://dbservice.com/tom/LinuxTest.exe It creates LinuxTest.log in the same directory as the executable, and prints out whether pbuffers are supported and which drawbuffers are activated.. tom Well, I ra

Re: What is the reason to use GL_FRONT_LEFT in wglMakeCurrent()

Tomas Carnecky wrote: I have written a test for windows (to test whether wglMakeCurrent changes the drawbuffer or not), but nobody of my friends has a graphics card that supportd pbuffers. tom I have a GF FX5700. Does that support pbuffers? If so, I'll run the test Tom

Re: file.c:246: Test failed: shouldn't be able to delete a readonly file

Mike McCormack wrote: Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: Hmm.. I'm thinking that the test isn't doing it right then... Cause windows will let you delete a readonly file, but it prompts you first Deleting using the UI isn't the same as a program using DeleteFile

Re: file.c:246: Test failed: shouldn't be able to delete a readonly file

Huw D M Davies wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:24:53PM -0500, Matt Finnicum wrote: I'm at a windows XP machine right now. I have no trouble deleting read-only files - I get the dialog informing me it's read-only, but then it allows me to delete it. Is it the same on 95/98? How are

Re: file.c:246: Test failed: shouldn't be able to delete a readonly file

Huw D M Davies wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:04:21AM -0600, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: Umm.. I'm not totally sure this is 100% in conformance with windows. When I try to delete a readonly file, I get a dialog telling me that it is readonly, and asking me

file.c:246: Test failed: shouldn't be able to delete a readonly file

Umm.. I'm not totally sure this is 100% in conformance with windows. When I try to delete a readonly file, I get a dialog telling me that it is readonly, and asking me if I really want to delete it. If we are completely disallowing removal of a readonly file (by windows standard, not linux' s

Re: Dev-C++ dogfooding

There is a freeware program called Total Copy that you might be able to convince the author to let you have the source (or to at least let you use the animation).. He doesn't actively develop it anymore, and it would be nice to have our own copy dialog anyways.. I use total copy on my windows

Wiki access

Could someone give me access to rename and delete pages in the wiki? I can't even rename or delete my own user page (!!) Thanks Tom

Re: Known issues area on main wiki page

Tony Lambregts wrote: Tom Spear wrote: On 3/21/06, *Vitaliy Margolen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I sure hope all users will go look at this page first. But some how I don't think they will. When we getting _exact_ duplicates with the same summary and a

Re: Known issues area on main wiki page

Segin wrote: Tony Lambregts wrote: Tom Spear wrote: On 3/21/06, **Vitaliy Margolen** <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: [...] [...] Keeping them around for a while even after they are fixed would be a good idea since not everyone keeps up with the latest version of wine. I

Re: Known issues area on main wiki page

Jesse Allen wrote: On 3/20/06, Mike McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dimi Paun wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:28 -0600, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: clicking on the audio tab to check out bug 4051 first? Please! How about we fix the p

Known issues area on main wiki page

I'm not trying to be a whiner here, but I think enough is enough when it comes to having to close bugs as a duplicate. There has to be some simple solution to cut down on the number of new bugs filed that report that winecfg crashes when clicking on the audio tab. I know that the subject abov

Re: bugzilla account

Tony, can you empower me to empower other people, since I have already been empowered to fix bugs, and I got his request email last night? Tom Tony Lambregts wrote: Michael Jung wrote: Hi, I would like to change the status of bug 4322 to FIXED, but I'm not 'empowered' to do it. Whom do I ha

Representation of virtual hardware in desktop managers [Was Bug 4551]

Forwarded from Bugzilla bug 4551. Nowadays on Linux you do not see your virtual wine hardware drives in KDE or GNOME because they are not recognized. You have to open "invisible" folder "$HOME/.wine". Many users will not be able to do this. Maybe one could work out some standard with freedesktop

Re: wine on Intel Xeon processor

in the Xeon processor We had'nt recompiled the kernel with Xeon Processor , we are using the same that is coming with RHEL 4.0 Now I compiled the kernel again and used the new kernel Image. Still I am getting the same timings On 2/9/06, *Tom Spear (

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

James Hawkins wrote: If the user is not in the /etc/sudoers configuration file, it just complains you're not in the configuration and asks for the root password. That is apparently distro-specific, as the last time I used sudo on my Slackware 10.2 box (a few months ago), as well as on my room

sudo vs su in wineinstall

Hi guys, bug 4439 describes a problem where a machine (running ubuntu) does not install wine when using wineinstall due to the fact that su dos not work.. Just a couple of questions: Is this the case (su not working) on all Ubuntu machines, or just something broken on that users' machine? I

Re: The Dogfood Challenge: use Wine to run your web browser, etc.

I like the sound of these ideas very much.. Should we check the ability to just run the apps, or the apps and any extensions or plugins they might support? I suppose the 2nd one would make more sense, cause thats why people use firefox, to get more out of their browser, but it is a question in