Roseanne wrote: >> winetricks-alpha version 20110219's gui now starts with a wineprefix >> selection dialog. ... >> When using the gui, games can only be installed into their own >> sandboxed prefix. > > You should make a separate wineprefix the default for Office > 2003 and 2007 as well, though it shouldn't be sandboxed. Right > now you are setting the override for riched20 only for the > main apps, but many of Office's advanced features (e.g., > clip organizer, equation editor) are separate exes and the > override needs to be set for all of them. Installing to a > separate wineprefix and setting the override globally is much > easier. It will also protect Office apps from being messed > up by other overrides a user might set for other apps. You > might also want to disable Wine's crash dialog for Office, > as it prevents Office's error handler from recovering the file > that was being worked on at the time of the crash.
Good ideas all. I isolated just games for starters simply because it was an easy place to start, but will get to apps soon. (Incidentally, I did a silent release, 20110219b-alpha, to fix a few install problems that show up on an empty cache.) - Dan
