On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 09:34 -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:30:19PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
The version 0.9 todo list (bug 85) specifies the need for a rewritten
intro to the Wine User Guide.
This patch is that rewritten intro. It rewords things to make
for each of them. It shouldn't be long - it
should be mostly links to other parts of the user guide. I think of
something like that...
Not a bad idea, I'll certainly keep it in mind as I go through the other
chapters.
-Scott Ritchie
are a bit beyond
my abilities.
(note: forwarded to wine-devel for further feedback)
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Are there any plans to spotlight Wine-use success
stories on the WineHQ home page? I always think of
how Disney used Wine to run Photoshop 7 so they could
move to a Linux platform. I'm sure it could draw
additional attention/ support and provide additional
credibility to non-Wine users.
This
1. What is the legaly correct way to do this? As I understand it,
public domain source can simply be taken as is and re-licensed under
the LGPL. Is this correct? Am I allowed to remove the headers in the
original file, which state that the code is public domain? How do you
generally acknowledge
for all Debian
systems.
Could someone else clean this up? I'm scared to touch configure.
-Scott Ritchie
, who wants to update it?
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On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:25 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Scott Ritchie wrote:
However, I'm not sure if this means the wine binary package should
depend on them, since it's compiled in. So, should I make libicu28 a
dependancy for wine?
ICU is compiled statically. There is no runtime
Actually, a wine and wine-devel would be good, to match what we're
doing with .rpm files. Reduces confusion. While you're at it, it
would be nice to host them also on SF, so we have a one place that
holds all the wine packages.
--
Dimi.
Well, I am condensing it down. Here's what I think we
tasks suggested this week. Perhaps we should create a desktop
integration tasklist or even append it onto the 1.0 todo?
Trying to further improve usability,
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total control over
their packages.
Ubuntu is a different matter, however, and I may be able to get an
Ubuntu version included much quicker.
If you're a Debian/Ubuntu user, test out the packages and tell me if I
left anything out.
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about 3
people I could get to switch to Wine entirely if we could get this
working :)
I haven't filed a bugzilla report yet, but if it helps I will.
Thoughts?
-Scott Ritchie
as of the latest release on the winehq.org web page. Currently,
only the introduction of the user guide is in its updated state - I'm
working on patching up the Getting Wine chapter as well as some other
stuff like the bug reporting guide.
Thank you for your input though,
Scott Ritchie,
Self Proclaimed Wine
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:23 +, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:02:01 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Scott Ritchie,
Self Proclaimed Wine Usability guy
Good. We need one. I do my best but these days spend most of my time
writing app compat patches. Somebody who is specifically
.
Thoughts?
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.
Global symbol %directories requires explicit package name
at /usr/bin/winemaker line 441.
Execution of /usr/bin/winemaker aborted due to compilation errors.
What's going on here? Did I screw something up, or was this broken in
that release? This is with the December release.
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the
concept of a port for software with the class of dessert wine known as
port. It would be a really delicious pun, and it would drum up the
right images.
So, yes, I support the PortWINE initiative. :)
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signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed
page of the applications
database, or from the support tab, or something. Anyway, I'm posting it
here for peer review.
I've also sent it to wine-patches, but as I said nothing yet links to
it.
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helping_applications.template
h1How to help get applications working
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/12/0343.html
Is there a reason why this little update hasn't been committed? I think
it makes the front page a bit more user-friendly, as well as updating
some of the links.
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, an AppDB.
On another note, it looks like the AppDB documentation is in PHP, rather
than the normal template format like the rest of the website. Is this a
good idea?
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the key in a seperate program and
then merging it in - there's an entire thread about it in the eMule
forums.
-Scott Ritchie
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 17:50 +0100, Michael Jung wrote:
Hello,
In order to test rsaenh.dll, I'm looking for software, which applies the
Microsoft Crypto-API. Any
with
a newwer WINE? Thanks!
Always!
-Scott Ritchie
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 18:04 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 17:53 -0500, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
I've attached the mingw-compiled C binary. Is it worth trying again with
a newwer WINE? Thanks!
Always!
-Scott Ritchie
Wait, I need to correct myself:
NOT ALWAYS
There have been a few patches submitted to lostwages over the past few
weeks that are still uncommitted.
Are you still on vacation Jeremy? Should we resend?
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the download section,
not stuff put in the webspace.
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I'm currently doing.
So...
1) Finish winecfg and the site a bit so we know what to write about
2) Finish documentation so they know what to translate
3) Then ask for translators :)
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On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 15:43 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:
Hey All you web programmers out
Heh, just wanted to point out that the front page WWN article is for
January 31
A user sent me this.
I'm not exactly sure what she's referring to. Any ideas?
---BeginMessage---
Setting up msttcorefonts (1.1.11) ...
These fonts were provided by Microsoft in the interest of cross-
platform compatibility. This is no longer the case, but they are
still available from third
I need to upload the Debian packages into the Sourceforge HTTP space in
order for our APT server to be up to date. It'd be nice if I could do
it myself.
My sourceforge name is yokozar
If someone could add me that would be great.
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the desktop also
disables single click running of .desktop files that don't have the
execute bit set. It's trivial to write a piece of Linux malware that
does whatever you want by making it a .desktop file - you can even make
it so it displays as whatever name you like (and not foo.desktop).
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Chris Robinson wrote:
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 6:07:08 pm Scott Ritchie wrote:
When I brought this up at the Ubuntu Developer Summit a while back, the
security conscious there wanted to check an executable for the execute
bit before launching it with Wine. Then, the user would be prompted
Chris Robinson wrote:
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 8:57:23 pm Scott Ritchie wrote:
Worse, you could actively irritate them - suppose they do double click
and you DONT offer the ability to open it, but instead instruct them to
go through that annoying procedure.
It's hardly annoying
to see issues like this get even worse.
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at work which has the system on
the E: drive and no C: drive at all. WHAT.
That said, is there any program in the world that would balk at
installing on C:?
No, and Vista now defaults to always reassigning the system drive to C:\
- it's not bad for us to copy that behavior.
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Ben Klein wrote:
2009/3/8 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
David Gerard wrote:
2009/3/8 King InuYasha ngomp...@gmail.com:
Drive C: is not necessarily the truly central drive. I have seen Windows
installs that installed on D: and have C: as a permanently mounted network
share. To assume
, this would
prevent regressions entirely.
I do have one question though: do we mean regressions relative to any
beta Wine, or just regressions relative to 1.0.1? I prefer the less
strict approach if it means more frequent releases, but I'm not sure it
matters at this point.
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Ben Klein wrote:
2009/3/9 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
Starting the release process three months from now would be a really
good thing. It would put us just in time for the next wave of distro
releases (Ubuntu 9.10 among them), which would get 1.2 to millions of
new desktops
that the system drive is not always the c:
drive on Windows (via comments and our conformance test results). So it
is not Wine's place to force the user to use c: as the system drive.
It is on vista though, and I suspect later Windows will be as well.
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and there,
if a good venue presents itself.
I'm also more than willing to give talks at whatever venue, in case you
need a sub or a break.
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(from #xorg-devel) told me that if we need any API changes to do
this right, we can ask him. Now is the time.
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.
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needed some of the time), you're slowing
the process down and adding a lot of points of failure such as an
obsolete install script or a no-longer needed workaround.
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AND windows) is very possible with
careful planning, which is part of what makes this proposal so
interesting.
You don't need wget - just have autohotkey install the web browser, open
a webpage, and then download the files by point and click ;)
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.
- Dan
Yes that is cool - though I think a plotted graph would be easier to
read. On the other hand the animation does help get the feeling of
growth across.
It does, though I do worry how much it's graphing rating inflation more
than actual progress.
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then as well.
Thoughts?
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our projects logo and is, to a real extent, more than just an icon.
Meanwhile, I'll try drumming up some artists to see if I can get a few
different Tango-compliant icons for us to chose from.
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Scott Ritchie wrote:
Meanwhile, I'll try drumming up some artists to see if I can get a few
different Tango-compliant icons for us to chose from.
Apparently my work has already been done! There are some beautiful
icons originally made for Ubuntu Studio that have give me everything I
asked
is releasing.
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the effect of specific damage (working
on almost working apps). It turns out the collateral damage strategy
isn't very good - you fix a few bugs in a lot of apps, but most will
remain broken due to some small problem that hardly affects anything else.
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what happens in real life.
I don't think it's too inaccurate if we imagine the start of the model
being today rather than 16 years ago when the project got started. So
that way we don't have to quite worry about the moving target so much.
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to break on upgrade, even if they are big ones. We've spent a lot
of effort chasing Photoshop, but if only the Photoshop of three years
ago works then we haven't really gained much directly.
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bug affects many apps (the constants you've chosen
imply that it does), things look very nice at the end.
Yeah, I'll note that whether a typical app has a few bugs or a lot of
bugs to start with depends on whether we want to model from the start
or from here on out.
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guess that from the date.
2) how long regression bugs took to be fixed
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without applying the Ubuntu patches. So that tells me that the change took place outside the Ubuntu patches.
I've had a few users report crashing in steam games as a result of
pulseaudio: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367379 -- do you think this
is all related?
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size version to go well in
the menu.
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Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote:
tools/wine.desktop: reduce MIME types to application/x-ms-dos-executable and
application/x-msi
If you're not going to motivate this in the email, you could at least
refer people to bug 18307
Austin English wrote:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Damjan Jovanovic damjan@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote:
tools/wine.desktop: reduce MIME types to application/x-ms-dos-executable and
application/x-msi
If you're not going
Massimo Del Fedele wrote:
I put on bug's 421 page an update of my dib engine.
It implements AlphaBlend, StretchBlt and has many color fixes.
If you want to try it, just follow instructions on above page.
Ciao
Max
Keep at it, it's very exciting :)
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of foundation (eg monthly or annual contribution). It's a
funding model that works, which is why they do it for public radio.
I think there's real potential here.
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can get Wine 1.2 in there. Now,
someone please finish one of Alexandre's release goals in the next 5
months so this can happen ;)
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/blog/archives/48
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on as well,
however they have to be retouched individually to maintain the 1 pixel
border/brush stroke in the Tango style. Eventually I'll submit a patch
for our website's mini icon as well.
Anyway, please feel free to give way too much feedback :)
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new-wine-tango-icons
Warren Dumortier wrote:
Nice, however i have a little suggestion...
Would it be possible to assign an icon to WINE when you select a
program from the list? This would be nice! ;)
Huh? It's not clear to me what you're referring to here. Which list?
Which icon?
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Warren Dumortier wrote:
2009/5/9 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
Warren Dumortier wrote:
Nice, however i have a little suggestion...
Would it be possible to assign an icon to WINE when you select a
program from the list? This would be nice! ;)
Huh? It's not clear to me what you're
IneedAname wrote:
On Fri, 08 May 2009 19:41:31 -0700
Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote:
Anyway, please feel free to give way too much feedback :)
I like then but not the one with the folder on. The gray colour just does not
work for me.
I agree. The folder icon should match
Frank Richter wrote:
On 09.05.2009 04:41, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Anyway, please feel free to give way too much feedback :)
The outline of the upper glass part seems to be a shade of gray, but the
outline of the shaft at the bottom is black, looking kind of
unbalanced. Changing the black
deltas with
Alexandre's main branch other than backports, but this one is
specifically written to not do anything unless manually enabled.
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, a good handful of
bugs completely prevented by it. I'm curious how much more common
findings like this are getting as Winetest has grown in sophistication.
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Henri Verbeet wrote:
2009/5/11 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
Henri Verbeet wrote:
2009/5/11 Joerg Mayer jma...@loplof.de:
As I think that Alexandre has stated his preference (and I can understand
him taking a long term view), I want to ask the packagers for the distros
out there: Would
Ben Klein wrote:
2009/5/12 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
Henri Verbeet wrote:
2009/5/11 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
Henri Verbeet wrote:
2009/5/11 Joerg Mayer jma...@loplof.de:
As I think that Alexandre has stated his preference (and I can
understand
him taking a long term view
themselves into some sort of
machine parseable format. Then we could have a rough chart of
performance data on various things as development continues; in
particular we'd catch bugs that still behave correctly but are
drastically inefficient.
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for these missing/buggy features, since you're aware of
them. That might help everyone, and also make your DIB engine more
attractive since it'll be passing even more tests that current Wine may
not be.
Keep up the good work :)
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about its successor Cedega on the various web forums seems to
be that it's often substantially behind Crossover Games).
Codeweavers, you need to do a better job letting people know Crossover
Games exists.
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into actual packages (which I'll
also be doing).
Anyway, keep your eyes peeled, the next wave of distro releases are
going to be very slick.
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Ben Klein wrote:
2009/6/2 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
First, I talked with a Pulseaudio expert about what we can do to make
things work better. He said that if we want good compatibility we will
need our ALSA stack to use the Pulseaudio safe subset:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects
, etc./div
/li
Aren't you the one who's updating the wiki to the theme?
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Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Francois Gouget fgou...@free.fr wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Ben Klein wrote:
2009/6/2 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
[...]
First, I talked with a Pulseaudio expert about what we can do to make
things work better. He said
any real infrastructure for handling those kind of
donations (nor seeking them, for that matter).
Perhaps it's time for me to dust off that Wine Foundation idea.
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Austin English wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Ben Kleinshackl...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/29 Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org:
Who would they give the money to, even if they wanted to give it to us?
Codeweavers?
Is a private for-profit company.
Is there something wrong
a foundation could play, such as
community organizing, developer recruiting, sponsoring summer of code
projects year round, or even just serving as a tax deduction for
Codeweavers' donated code.
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- that's why we're there, and usually there's
something simple like writing stub functions that's a great way to get
started.
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a
fraud or a GPL violation.
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Austin English wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:22 PM, nnsaturn_syst...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
Wine Appdb is down
--
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to
local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in
component (or product) comes in - once an
issue is deduced to be a packaging error (say, a missing build dep),
then it can just be reassigned and the relevant packager auto-subscribed.
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and we can see how
much of a success the event was.
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to sleep - suffice
to say it's already interesting!
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Austin English wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Dmitry
Timoshkovdmi...@codeweavers.com wrote:
Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote:
I'll blog about this and post a few forum threads as well. I wanted to
see how wine-devel would act last night before I went to sleep - suffice
-ubuntu artwork) had a
similar question when I was talking to him about wine, and he came up
with the attached image.
Not sure if it's useful though.
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inline: wine_MadsRH.svg
Provider and then have the
others be able to link to it (but still be separate accounts). After
that it's just about being able to login by OpenID rather than have a
single account moving across each place.
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/Appinstall_Testing
These are both fantastic thing. Thanks Austin!
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Scott Ritchie wrote:
So, briefly:
Over the past few months, users have added an average of between 12 and
14 bugs every day.
Since June 1st:
- 412 total bugs filed
- 87 bugs resolved invalid
- 227 bugs resolved fixed
- 133 bugs confirmed but not resolved (status new)
- 292 bugs
has shown himself to be very capable, and he deserves bugzilla
permissions so he can help facilitate bug hunts in the future.
Again, thank you everyone!
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that aren't yet working)
- AppDB stats
I'll work on some of this after I go through the rest of the WineHQ.org
pages (eg the About page), which also need cleanup.
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stuff.
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.
The open source startup joke was brilliant - enough to stand on its
own as a great 10 second clip. Might I suggest, in the future, doing a
bunch of separate small youtube videos, maybe publishing one every Wine
release ;)
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want to avoid losing any users who may potentially dismiss us
as amateurish or too complicated based on our web site.
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to be dismissing as nonsense. I'll be working on
getting patchwatcher back online this week and Luke (the author of that
article) already has a prototype of the patch tracking system he mentions.
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the main Help link on the WineHQ web site. As it
is it's not particularly helpful at showing users the most important
things that you list..
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, I had already sent this patch in by the time I read this. I also
changed all the smaller text to use imperative verbs. So, I agree of
course ;)
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Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:53 -0700
Scott Ritchie sc...@open-vote.org wrote:
I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused
rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the
moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may
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