On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:52 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:33:47AM +0200, wino(a)piments.com wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:37:19 +0200, Dan Kegel <daniel.r.kegel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But the IE registry key is something Wine should maybe set by default.
Nonsense, then every prog would be misled as to what is present on the system. At first I thought that Wine should have set it by default (just as mentioned in a recent wine-devel mail), but you're right, I'd say we should only set it once Wine is able to cover a significant amount of IE functionality (i.e. we do have a usefully working browser). Which might just as well be never... The risk of programs failing due to discovering our IE version key and then unsuccessfully and *silently* trying to use our horribly incomplete IE functionality is a lot worse than not having the IE key and thus programs usually telling the user that IE is not available and that he should install it.
What about a checkbox in winecfg? "Fool programs to think IE6 is installed" or something. Possibly with a dropdown box for versions. winecfg should of course then be able to check that there is no IE installed. Or maybe a version override would be beneficial anyways..? In any case. A program I have here will not install without IE6, and works perfectly well (except auto update) when just setting the registry setting. Saves me a lot of grief. -HK