On Tuesday, June 20, 2000, "John R . Sheets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'll throw together a basic framework for this and post it here for
> review (hopefully by tomorrow sometime).
Here's a rough proposal of a documentation suite for Wine:
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OVERVIEW
For beginning users; assumes Wine is already installed. Very simple
language; task-based.
WINE INSTALLATION GUIDE
For all users; includes FTP, CVS, Redhat, Debian, etc.
Covers getting it on the system, but not personalizing it.
WINE USER'S GUIDE
For the day-to-day user; maintaining Wine on your system. How to
configure the basic services, like fonts, printing, multimedia.
WINE APPLICATIONS GUIDE
For dealing with specific applications.
WINE PORTING GUIDE
For developers trying to migrate their apps to UNIX, using Wine.
WINE DEVELOPER'S GUIDE
For developers wanting to contribute to Wine. How to submit patches,
what policies to follow, how to debug, and a nice, juicy section on
the Wine architecture.
OVERVIEW
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1. Introduction
- What is Wine?
- How do I run Wine?
2. Running Wine
- At the command line
- From the GNOME Panel
- From the KDE Panel (Taskbar?)
WINE INSTALLATION GUIDE
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1. Introduction
- What forms does Wine take?
2. Installing on Redhat/Mandrake/SUSE
3. Installing on Debian
4. Installing from FTP
5. Installing from CVS
6. Configuring Wine
- Setting up wine.conf
- With Windows Partition
7. Graphical Configuration
- Using TkWineSetup
- With GNOME Control Center (NYI)*
- With KDE Control Panel (NYI)
8. Testing the installation
- Checklist to verify
- Running an app
*-Not Yet Implemented
WINE USER'S GUIDE
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1. Introduction
2. Running Wine
- Simplest case
- Command line parameters
3. Configuring Wine
- Customizing .winerc
- Builtin vs. native DLLs
- x11drv
- Look & feel
- Keyboard
4. Networking
5. Printing
6. Fonts
7. Multimedia
8. Security
9. OpenGL
10. Troubleshooting
- Making a bug report
- Common debug flags
11. FAQ
WINE APPLICATIONS GUIDE
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1. MS Office
2. Lotus Notes
3. Quicken
4. StarCraft
...
WINE PORTING GUIDE
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1. Introduction
2. Binary emulation
3. WineLib
4. FAQ
WINE DEVELOPER'S GUIDE
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I. Architecture
1. The Wine Server
2. DLLs in Wine
3. Drivers
4. The Kernel
5. The graphics subsystem
6. OLE Support
7. Unicode
II. Debugging Wine
8. Debugging channels
9. The Wine debugger
III. Tools
10. wrc
11. wmc
12. winapi_check
13. build.c
14. Misc. scripts
IV. Policies & Procedures
15. Preparing a patch
16. Documentation
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John
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