When will ie6 registry key be added?
Hi, subject says it: When will ie6 registry key be added? People are filing bugs against wine, because installers fail, saying ie6 has to be installed. I guess in most cases, they will rush for ies4linux (which is btw a great script i think, but useless to use other apps then ie6) and end up with a mess because it sets lots of dlls to native. Or is this a wontfix, because real ie6 will never come with wine? Please consider adding the key. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On 11/4/06, Louis. Lenders <xerox_xerox2000(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi, subject says it: When will ie6 registry key be added?
Adding registry keys will not fix all of these problems. Some installers also check the version info of the (stub) dll's in wine. (in my case, Autocad 2004) In cases where a faked registry key does help, a single key is often sufficient, so it's not very difficult to do by hand. I think it would be best to mention this in the appdb for the applications that need this, and maybe in the wine wiki. (it probably already is)
On 04.11.2006 19:35, Jaap Stolk wrote:
On 11/4/06, Louis. Lenders <xerox_xerox2000(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi, subject says it: When will ie6 registry key be added?
Adding registry keys will not fix all of these problems. Some installers also check the version info of the (stub) dll's in wine. (in my case, Autocad 2004)
In cases where a faked registry key does help, a single key is often sufficient, so it's not very difficult to do by hand. I think it would be best to mention this in the appdb for the applications that need this, and maybe in the wine wiki. (it probably already is)
I wonder if there's a good reason against adding those registry keys via e.g. wine.inf, so affected installers will work out of the box? -f.r.
Am Samstag 04 November 2006 22:49 schrieb Frank Richter:
On 04.11.2006 19:35, Jaap Stolk wrote:
On 11/4/06, Louis. Lenders <xerox_xerox2000(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi, subject says it: When will ie6 registry key be added?
Adding registry keys will not fix all of these problems. Some installers also check the version info of the (stub) dll's in wine. (in my case, Autocad 2004)
In cases where a faked registry key does help, a single key is often sufficient, so it's not very difficult to do by hand. I think it would be best to mention this in the appdb for the applications that need this, and maybe in the wine wiki. (it probably already is)
I wonder if there's a good reason against adding those registry keys via e.g. wine.inf, so affected installers will work out of the box? Will ie6 still install then?
On 11/5/06, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at> wrote:
Will ie6 still install then?
I wonder if we should add a listbox to winecfg to set the Internet Explorer version. This matter has come up often enough that there needs to be some way to set it and or toggle it for certain applications. I'm thinking something like the option for like the Windows version. -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
Am Sonntag 05 November 2006 20:44 schrieb Steven Edwards:
On 11/5/06, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at> wrote:
Will ie6 still install then?
I wonder if we should add a listbox to winecfg to set the Internet Explorer version. This matter has come up often enough that there needs to be some way to set it and or toggle it for certain applications. I'm thinking something like the option for like the Windows version. How about linking it to the windows version? I think win98 came with ie4, win2000 with 5.5, winxp with 6.0?
Steven Edwards wrote:
On 11/5/06, *Stefan Dösinger* <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at <mailto:stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at>> wrote:
Will ie6 still install then?
AFAIR someone found that if we set minor version to less than the recent one, ie6 will install. I've never checked it.
I wonder if we should add a listbox to winecfg to set the Internet Explorer version. This matter has come up often enough that there needs to be some way to set it and or toggle it for certain applications. I'm thinking something like the option for like the Windows version.
IMO it's not the way to go. We should always set IE registry. The only app that can be affected by adding these registry keys is IE itself. If any other app is negatively affected, we should fix it in Wine. Jacek
On 11/5/06, Jacek Caban <jacek(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
Steven Edwards wrote:
On 11/5/06, *Stefan Dösinger* <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at <mailto:stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at>> wrote:
Will ie6 still install then?
AFAIR someone found that if we set minor version to less than the recent one, ie6 will install. I've never checked it.
I wonder if we should add a listbox to winecfg to set the Internet Explorer version. This matter has come up often enough that there needs to be some way to set it and or toggle it for certain applications. I'm thinking something like the option for like the Windows version.
IMO it's not the way to go. We should always set IE registry. The only app that can be affected by adding these registry keys is IE itself. If any other app is negatively affected, we should fix it in Wine.
Jacek
Let's set the registry key then. Here's a patch to do it through wine.inf: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-November/032854.html
It is in the wiki on http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys under HKLM. As it is a problems many users will run into, I think it should be mentioned in a more prominent location. It's actually kind of difficult to search for this registry key, so unless users know to look for it, they will probably search for it and end up getting lots of results on installing Internet Explorer under wine. On 11/4/06, Jaap Stolk <jwstolk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/4/06, Louis. Lenders <xerox_xerox2000(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi, subject says it: When will ie6 registry key be added?
Adding registry keys will not fix all of these problems. Some installers also check the version info of the (stub) dll's in wine. (in my case, Autocad 2004)
In cases where a faked registry key does help, a single key is often sufficient, so it's not very difficult to do by hand. I think it would be best to mention this in the appdb for the applications that need this, and maybe in the wine wiki. (it probably already is)
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