Re: Nightly performance regression graphs

2010-05-18 Thread Remco
an SVG image. -- Remco

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Remco
, the goal was to investigate whether Valve was working on Steam for Linux, there's nothing more to see here. -- Remco

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Remco
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:40, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: If you run the following shell code in an empty directory, it will download and fix a bug the Linux Steam client so that it will actually show a (nonworking) GUI. You'll need bspatch installed for this to work. http://pastie.org

Re: Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

2010-05-06 Thread Remco
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:54, Edward Savage epss...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: The binary was not given to Phoronix. They found a link to the Linux version in a shell script for the Mac version. It is still available, and the binaries

Re: Top wine-using country: Russia?

2010-04-24 Thread Remco
Gert I tried to get a trend of Wine itself. Very interesting results here too. http://www.google.com/trends?q=wine+linux%2C+winex%2C+cedega%2C+crossover+mac%2C+crossover+linuxctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=4 -- Remco

Wine 2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Remco
of major releases? I somehow doubt that a 2.0 can ever be justified if regular major releases use 1.x. -- Remco

Re: wine rejects development (Mouse escapes window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE)

2009-12-07 Thread Remco
for your work. It has been a long time coming. With the advent of XI2 we can finally see some progress! -- Remco

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Remco
Information into About. * About is a keyword used in many apps that means: info about this program * The icon already tells you it's information. * Information is very broad. Most of the site is information. Remco

Re: Removing active maintainers

2009-06-29 Thread Remco
after a while. Remco

Re: Removing active maintainers

2009-06-29 Thread Remco
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Rosanne DiMesiodime...@earthlink.net wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:48:17 +0200 Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I thought everybody got their AppDB updates by mail. But whichever way you receive notice of queued submissions without maintainers, that's where

Re: Removing active maintainers

2009-06-27 Thread Remco
Women... sounds like a nice Fun Project. :) Remco

Re: Removing active maintainers

2009-06-26 Thread Remco
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Ben Kleinshackl...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe that [AppDB] could be governed more like a wiki There has been talk about AppDB being more wiki-like, but it's not really suitable when the primary information is test data which is so specific it does not change (e.g.

Re: Removing active maintainers

2009-06-26 Thread Remco
more help in getting the app working, he should be referred to the forums. Just a big link App Troubleshooting to the wine-users forum. Having two places to ask for help is confusing and spreads attention. Remco

Re: Removing active maintainers

2009-06-25 Thread Remco
be governed more like a wiki: anyone (who's logged in) can change the page, and every edit is listed in a changelog. Just like with wikis, you can 'watch' pages for changes, which is sort of analogous to becoming a maintainer. The comments would then be analogous to a wiki talk page. Remco

Re: Fate of PulseAudio in WINE

2009-06-16 Thread Remco
that the PulseAudio developer means the same thing for PA. Some apps use ALSA in a way that cannot be expected to work. In other words: it probably fails on some ALSA systems as well. Remco

/. wants a fork

2009-05-25 Thread Remco
Oh great, now there is poison on slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/24/2044239 Let's not fork, shall we? Remco

Re: Severity levels

2009-05-08 Thread Remco
. This has happened to me before. I thought it was a problem with Gmail, but it may as well be the wine mailing list server, or something else entirely. Remco

Re: Shuttleworth on Wine

2009-05-05 Thread Remco
that the interviewer missed the third aspect that is important: good free software itself. Remco

Re: Shuttleworth on Wine

2009-05-05 Thread Remco
saying it. Not only that. Canonical has decided a few years ago that Wine would not be included for this reason. [1] So it's really really really old news. Remco [1] http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/11/1220219art_pos=4

Re: IE and MSN Messenger 7.0

2009-04-30 Thread Remco
email: - Thank you very much, Ben. Yeah, I must get another PC soon, because this is an old one and that causes problems. Cheers, cissy. - So I'm pretty sure he's on the wrong mailing list. Remco

Re: IE and MSN Messenger 7.0

2009-04-30 Thread Remco
programma (genaamd Wine) waarmee je Windows-programma's kan draaien onder andere besturingssystemen zoals Linux, Solaris en FreeBSD. Jij bent op zoek naar een oude versie van een Windows-programma. Die kan hier vinden: http://www.oldversion.com/MSN-Messenger.html Remco

Re: Article on wine development strategy

2009-04-18 Thread Remco
commercial Wine packagers (and individual users obviously) have the choice of compiling it in. Something like ./configure --paid-for-patents. Remco

Re: Icons, logos, Tango, consistency, the user experience, and our project looks like a 2D champaign flute

2009-04-16 Thread Remco
, without guidelines. It's just a theme. Remco

Re: NTFS filesystem features - WONTFIX?

2009-04-05 Thread Remco
is to actually implement the NTFS-specific features of Windows, and call it NTFS. Remco

Re: Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead

2009-03-02 Thread Remco
aggregation, which is allowed by the GPL and the LGPL. Remco

Re: appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

2009-02-27 Thread Remco
capabilities of .deb packages should make it possible to add the authentication key. The same goes for .rpm and their respective updating mechanism. It's like the packages sanitize their environment. Remco

Re: appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

2009-02-27 Thread Remco
1.17-0 While the site would provide these for download: wine 1.15-1 wine 1.16-1 wine 1.17-1 Remco

Re: appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

2009-02-27 Thread Remco
: * Click here * Enter password After that, Wine will have been installed, and updates will start coming in. Remco

Re: appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

2009-02-27 Thread Remco
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Ben Klein shackl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/28 Remco remc...@gmail.com: Oh, I see. You mean that the package manager prefers the local repository if all else is equal. That's solvable by bumping the version number of the package that you download from the site

Re: appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

2009-02-27 Thread Remco
? That's part of the installation procedure. Doing it manually serves no purpose. The rest of the installation is also a magic link to a package that puts all kinds of files on your system and runs configuration scripts. Remco

Re: Malware on Wine review

2009-02-25 Thread Remco
. But that may change with Gallium3D. I don't know what problem that would solve though. Remco

Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote: Please try http://kegel.com/wine/distro.html and let me know if it detects your distro properly, I'll fix it up as needed. You're running Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux! Actually: Epiphany 2.24.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
you somehow coerce your colleagues into making a bottom-posting Gmail? ;) ) Remco

Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
And now also to the list: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote: Please try again, and paste the entire output page, I've added more info. Thanks! Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux

Re: Wine download page usability problem

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Remco remc...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox 3 on an unknown distribution Linux! userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/3.0 I don't think you're gonna be able to get the distribution name out

Possible to run arbitrary PHP code on pipermail server

2009-02-20 Thread Remco
I read the following e-mail on pipermail: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2009-February/073428.html Try downloading the PHP attachment from there; it will actually execute and give you an HTML page. This could easily be abused! Remco

Re: Proposed goal for website: happily usable at 800x600?

2009-02-13 Thread Remco
. While that is true, you can use javascript to enhance a site's usability. In this case, the site would still work without javascript, but paging would be done using jquery. Remco

Re: imagicos

2009-02-08 Thread Remco
- and possibly as a competitor to you - so you cannot charge 'unreasonable' amounts. Exactly. I find this whole thread a bit weird. Isn't it great that (commercial) Linux distributions are shipping Wine? Those exaggerated claims of compatibility are just marketing talk. I've seen worse. Remco

Re: A step in the wrong direction, in an ocean of steps in the right direction (try 3)

2009-01-25 Thread Remco
programs started working. At some point you have to stop making bad programs work, and implement the API as close to Windows itself as possible. The buggy program can still be made to work with a custom patch. Remco

Re: Wine t-shirts?

2008-12-17 Thread Remco
line. A normal person would think that Windows translation layer had something to do with internationalization. The WineHQ tag line explains it better: Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. Remco

Re: Canonical and wine

2008-12-10 Thread Remco
applications. Not for the Ubuntu project, which is completely free (except drivers). Maybe through the Canonical store, which also provides a legal but proprietary DVD player. Remco

Re: WineHQ redesign

2008-12-09 Thread Remco
screenshots in there. (Kidding, I'll stop about the screenshots ;-) ) Remco

Re: RFC: Proposed new web site design

2008-11-24 Thread Remco
. Remco

Re: Celebrating Wine 1.0

2008-06-17 Thread Remco
now and then, and Wine makes it possible. I just take a look at the AppDB before I decide to buy a game, and usually I can. Thanks again! Remco On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Dimi Paun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 09:55 -0500, Jeremy White wrote: Woohoo Alexandre just

Re: Celebrating Wine 1.0

2008-06-17 Thread Remco
The site was slashdotted a few hours ago, but it seems to be stable now. /dev/null took my words of praise in the WineHQ outage though: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it's DOWN! The web server couldn't handle the excitement I guess. As a user, I want

Re: uninformed musings on ddraw + bugs 2082 and 1347 + dib engine

2008-05-29 Thread Remco
. So we have to work around this problem Doesn't Compiz already offer the Unredirect Fullscreen Windows option? Remco

Re: Alternate shell?

2008-05-23 Thread Remco
, which resulted in the bug above. Remco

Re: GSOC proposal - control panel

2008-03-27 Thread Remco
anyway. Just look at the Wine regkeys, or try some Unix-calls. It's impossible to stop childish companies from blocking Wine. Remco

Re: Updated 1.0.0 release criteria; draft 1.0.0 release plan

2008-03-15 Thread Remco
rated apps)? There is of course a slight stability problem (mandatory updates) with the Steam apps in that top 10 list, so those would have to be excluded. Remco ___ Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! For Good

Re: Free apps bundled with msvcp71?

2008-03-12 Thread Remco
-oriented applications. Nothing in the application, especially the name,should refer to Wine of course; that alone would make it orientedto non-Windows platforms. At least until there is a plausible use for Wine on Windows. Remco

Re: WineHQ should discourage the use of cracks

2008-03-04 Thread Remco
working is not allowed at winehq.org, the mailing lists, the newsgroup or the IRC channel. Remco Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Re: appdb feature request: hide the ugly urls

2008-02-17 Thread Remco
easy to do with mod_rewrite. But it would have to be something like: http://appdb.winehq.org/app/128/adobe-premiere.html All the info is still in the URL (which mod_rewrite can extract), but it does look less scary. Remco

Re: appdb feature request: hide the ugly urls

2008-02-17 Thread Remco
should start using the URL bar as a search engine. The AppDB has a nice search engine already. And I think searching for literally all URLs is going to put a lot of strain on the server. Remco Never

Re: Next big app(s) to try?

2008-02-17 Thread Remco
of the few native Windows parts that cannot reasonably be replaced. Web developers need to test their sites in the real thing. Of the fun-related apps, a few press-generating apps would be Crysis DX10-mode and iTunes (iPod sync). Remco

Usable Wine interface

2008-02-17 Thread Remco
-functionality in a transparent way. Wouldn'tthat be a nice 1.0 polishing idea? Remco Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Re: Usable Wine interface

2008-02-17 Thread Remco
- Original Message From: Vitaliy Margolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wine-devel@winehq.org Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 4:16:17 AM Subject: Re: Usable Wine interface Remco wrote: I'd like to add a feature-request (should this go somewhereelse?) Yes, bugzilla - enhancement

Re: Autoplay considered harmful

2008-02-16 Thread Remco
Vista (and I think XP too) ask whether you want to start the Autorun program, or do a few other actions (open explorer, copy disk, etc). Remco - Original Message From: Evil Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steven Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wine-devel wine-devel@winehq.org; Dan Kegel

Re: What happened to the videos from WineConf?

2007-12-29 Thread Remco
downloads from WineHQ.org. Remco Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

Driver-supported DirectX

2007-11-22 Thread Remco
, Microsoft stated that they have to wrap OpenGL around DirectX on Windows, to be able to use both OpenGL and DirectX at the same time (for Aero). But I suspect that this implementation just developed naturally because messing with the drivers would be unthinkable way back when. Remco

Re: Yet another wine frontend: PlayOnLinux

2007-10-29 Thread Remco
, but it's not on the wiki. Unlike those temporary hacks to get specific applications working, winefix sounds like it has a few things Wine could really use in the desktop integration department. Remco (just a user/wine-devel-lurker) __ Do You Yahoo

Re: Is Wine a platform for Codeweaver to make money?! Please help me understand.

2007-04-08 Thread Remco
Just an idea here from a non-developer... Maybe bug reports could be automated in such a way that all fixme's and err's are stored in a file, and that file gets sent to Wine's bugzilla in intervals. Then it is automatically analysed and split up by DLL. That would make it the task of the

Re: Winebot

2007-03-23 Thread Remco
Will winebot be a win32 app or a linux app? Making it a win32 app and developing it on Windows would probably reveal more Wine bugs. Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at

Re: Another GSoC idea

2007-03-16 Thread Remco
showcase of Wine(lib) if the best-known open source graphics engine would have DirectX-support not only on Windows, but also on Linux. I've had this idea for a while now, but it might be a nice SoC-project. Remco

Another GSoC idea

2007-03-15 Thread Remco
native Linux DirectX app of this size that I know of. Wouldn't that be cool? Remco Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link

Re: appdb rating inflation

2007-01-05 Thread Remco
What about a checklist of problems it doesn't have, and basing the rating on that. Something like: Installation: (_) Installs correctly. (_) No installation nessecary to run. (_) Preinstalled on Windows. (x) Doesn't install. [_] Works without an unofficially patched Wine. [_] Works without a

Status of wine development

2006-12-18 Thread Remco
I ask it consisely, but maybe the answers could be posted as a news item on WineHQ. It would be great for Wine to get some exposure on tech sites from time to time. That requires some actual news (new minor releases aren't front-page news after all). So, what's the status/news of DX10? DX in