October 2008 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Re: Splitting the appdb Top 25 list
by chris ahrendt 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

MY $.02 cp on the issue agrees with the others... I would say split it up.. but more possibly than applications and games.. Say : games Utils Development Tools Applications Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Splitting the appdb Top 25 list
by Jeff Davis 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

I'm not a developer, but I joined to make a humble suggestion in a place where someone might actually have the power to act on it. Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the Top 25 into two lists, one for games, and one for applications/other? By my count, every item of the top 10 is a game. 22 out of the Top 25 are games or game-related. I don't think it's necessarily true that more people are interested in running The Sims than iTunes, or that The Sims is or should be a higher priority than having iTunes working. I think it gives the wrong impression of wine and its priorities, and makes a person feel a bit hopeless voting for an application no matter how many millions of people are users of that application on Windows. I think people would be more interested in voting for applications if they could get feedback on WineHQ. Thoughts?

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Re: Splitting the appdb Top 25 list
by Susan Cragin 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

-----Original Message----- >> I'm not a developer, but I joined to make a humble suggestion in a place >> where someone might actually have the power to act on it. >> >> Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the Top 25 into two >> lists, one for games, and one for applications/other? >> >> By my count, every item of the top 10 is a game. 22 out of the Top 25 are >> games or game-related. >> >> I don't think it's necessarily true that more people are interested in >> running The Sims than iTunes, or that The Sims is or should be a higher >> priority >> than having iTunes working. >> >> I think it gives the wrong impression of wine and its priorities, and makes >> a person feel a bit hopeless voting for an application no matter how many >> millions of >> people are users of that application on Windows. I think people would be >> more interested in voting for applications if they could get feedback on >> WineHQ. >> >> Thoughts? > > >I wonder if we should perhaps just remove the AppDB voting system alltogether. >As you said, it doesn't seem to be giving a good representation of users' >interests. > > >Alexander N. Sørnes I think that might be a good idea. One reason is that gamers probably play multiple games and cross-vote for each other's applications. Gamers are also likely to be young, and to spend a lot of time on the net, one way and another. They tend to vote. Older people are more disengaged. I'm just sitting here using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to avoid RSI, and to work faster. I know of a few people that use Dragon, and most of them use only that on WINE. But Dragon NaturallySpeaking is one of the most important programs WINE can run. DNS provides an input for handicapped people, provides increased productivity for business, and encourages all forms of writing, and hence learning and creativity. I use it to write, to take notes, to transcribe interviews. Court reporters in many US states use DNS. It's an important productivity tool. Susan Cragin

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Re: gdi32: Add job name field into CreateSpoolFile
by Detlef Riekenberg 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

On Mo, 2008-10-13 at 12:29 +0400, Konstantin Kondratyuk wrote: > - sprintf(psCmd,"|lpr -P'%s'",pszOutput+4); > + sprintf(psCmd,"|lpr -T %s -P'%s'",pszTitle,pszOutput+4); This is broken, when there is a space in the Title. -- By by ... Detlef

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Re: mscms: quiet a noisy fixme (1/3)
by Detlef Riekenberg 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

On Do, 2008-10-16 at 19:44 -0500, Austin English wrote: > + if (quietfixme == 0) > + { > + FIXME("unhandled bitmap format\n"); Such a FIXME has no useful information. You should also dump the unhandled bitmap format in the FIXME > + quietfixme = 1; > + return TYPE_RGB_8; > + } When you swap both lines above, ... > } > + return 0; ... you should no longer need the "return 0" above. > } > -- By by ... Detlef

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Wine and LSB development kit?
by Dan Kegel 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Two years ago I tried building wine with the LSB development kit, http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-August/050554.html They've released a snazzy new beta of LSB 4.0, see https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB_4.0_Beta Could somebody try building and running Wine with it to give them feedback? I'll give it a try myself sometime, but I'm pretty busy...

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Re: kernel32: quiet a noisy err (try 2)
by Henri Verbeet 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Actually, what are you doing that you even see this ERR at all?

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Re: comdlg32/tests: Windows XP cannot do a CreateViewWindow2 twice in rapid seccesion. handle this error.
by Henri Verbeet 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Any idea why it can't do that? Looking at the test results it looks like 2003 and 2008 fail as well, although 2008 fails on the first call, with a different error. The second CreateViewWindow2 call is more important than the first, so it probably makes sense to swap them if we're going to skip one of them.

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DirectX DLL 36?
by Warren Dumortier 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hi! A lot of games currently doesn't start 'out-of-the-box' by missing d3dx9_36.dll, wouldn't it a good idea to have this dll in wine, is it possible, difficult? I'm not a programmer, just a wine user proposing this idea (would be nice). Thanks, kind regards dear devs! :)

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Re: kernel32: quiet a noisy err (2/3)
by Vincent Povirk 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

You're setting quieterr to 0 initially, and the if condition will only be true if it is 1. The ERR will never be printed. Also, I think you should move the test for quieterr into the for loop, since all the loop does is print the ERR. Vincent Povirk On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com> wrote: > -- > -Austin > > > >

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