Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-02 Thread Owen Rudge
>> You might try to make some of those that have an analogue work in >> Wine, especially the "Legacy Control Panel Commands" "desktop" and >> "color". > > That's something I can look into, indeed. Having had a brief look into it, currently the control panel attempts to launch the appropriate .cpl

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-02 Thread Owen Rudge
> Wine's builtin control does just launch the shell's version of the > control panel, unless it's given an argument like "DESKTOP", > "DATE/TIME", etc. See programs/control.c. Indeed, I'm aware of that. Effectively, there are two versions of the control panel in the shell of course, the namespac

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-02 Thread Juan Lang
> I'll look into that, then. I know that the shell namespace control panel > does check the registry for entries (could you try using a program like the > ReactOS Explorer to browse the control panel and see if it shows up there?), > but I'm not sure if the standalone control.exe does. Ideally, the

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-02 Thread Owen Rudge
Hi Reece, > I just tested Cepstral SwiftTalker with latest git (see bug: > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12534) and I can't see the > options from the `control` program. You might want to get this and > other applets displaying/working before creating default Wine-specific > ones (e.g. li

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-02 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I personally believe this control panel applet (which also adds icons > for the Registry Editor and Task Manager, two other key utilities, which > would be useful to have easy access for) is a useful stepping-stone, as > it were. The control panel is no

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread Reece Dunn
2008/7/2 Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, the first part of the project was to get the shell namespace > implementation of Control Panel working properly, which is now > effectively complete. Hi, I just tested Cepstral SwiftTalker with latest git (see bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.c

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread Owen Rudge
> I still don't see the need for a winecfg cpl applet at this point. > You say that the Wine Configuration icon is ok for the time being. > Take your time and design it correctly the first time, so you or > others don't have to go back and fix it later. Measure twice, cut > once, as they say.

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread James Hawkins
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, that's not what I was suggesting. I was disagreeing with > > adding a winecfg cpl applet. Second, I'm likening winecfg to a very > > poorly-designed control panel. There are several categories that can > > go into

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread Owen Rudge
> First, that's not what I was suggesting. I was disagreeing with > adding a winecfg cpl applet. Second, I'm likening winecfg to a very > poorly-designed control panel. There are several categories that can > go into their own cpl applet, like 'Sound' and 'Graphics' (or whatever > you want to

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread James Hawkins
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Rob Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Owen Rudge wrote: >> > As we said before, implementing a control panel applet doesn't mean >> > you have to do anything to the current winecfg code. >> >> True, but would it really benefit to add an icon for each winecfg ta

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread James Hawkins
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As we said before, implementing a control panel applet doesn't mean > > you have to do anything to the current winecfg code. > > True, but would it really benefit to add an icon for each winecfg tab > (which I think is what

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread Rob Thornton
Owen Rudge wrote: > > As we said before, implementing a control panel applet doesn't mean > > you have to do anything to the current winecfg code. > > True, but would it really benefit to add an icon for each winecfg tab > (which I think is what you are suggesting, yes?) to the control panel, >

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread Owen Rudge
> As we said before, implementing a control panel applet doesn't mean > you have to do anything to the current winecfg code. True, but would it really benefit to add an icon for each winecfg tab (which I think is what you are suggesting, yes?) to the control panel, compared to having one gener

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread James Hawkins
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Isn't it more logical (and closer to native) to have a control panel >> applet for each category/tab already in winecfg instead of having one >> winecfg applet? Otherwise you're just moving winecfg to another >> place. > > We

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread Owen Rudge
> Isn't it more logical (and closer to native) to have a control panel > applet for each category/tab already in winecfg instead of having one > winecfg applet? Otherwise you're just moving winecfg to another > place. Well, my plan, as mentioned before in another thread, is to split up winecfg a

Re: winecfg.cpl: Add new control panel applet for winecfg

2008-07-01 Thread James Hawkins
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds a new applet, winecfg.cpl, to Wine, based on a patch sent a > few months ago by Metody Stefanov (pure_evil @ mail.bg). The control panel > features three icons, for Wine Configuration, the Registry Editor, and t