Patrick Spinler wrote:
> > Martin Pilka wrote:
> >
> > A possible approach suggested by Jeremy White is to specify a user
> > setup script in the global configuration. Then when Wine notices that
> > the user doesn't have a .wine directory it will launch this script,
> > which can copy the registry files from some templates and run a sed
> > script on them to fix the necessary things.
>
> How would a system administrator make global updates to all user's
> configurations _after_ they have instanciated a user specific HKEY_USER
> hive ? E.g, I've installed a new application or upgraded an existing one
> ...
>
And you just hit on one of the major issues with Windows NT.
Congratulations. On NT it is up to the application to have some sort of
configuration hook at startup so that when a user logs on after the
application having been installed, it configures it for the user.
Internet Explorer does this as do some other core windows components.
I believe Office does this as well.
Some apps, most notably older versions of wordperfect, did not create
appropriate registry keys for users. So if you installed WP as one user and
tried to use it as another user, it wouldn't work. But this holds true on
NT as well, so I don't see any reason for special wine behavior.
Wine should do things exactly like Windows NT.
-Dave
