re: My two cents about winetools and the suggestions I read in Issue 308
Joachim wrote:
IMO, the best thing for Wine would be to have a simple front end with a list of freely downloadable applications that work "out of the box" with no configuration changes.
Click -> Download application -> Install -> Run
This is exactly what we try to have with the next version of WineTools.
Right, but Mike meant "without installing any Microsoft libraries". - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
Am Do, Mär 16, 2006 at 05:13:15 -0800 schrieb Dan Kegel:
Joachim wrote:
IMO, the best thing for Wine would be to have a simple front end with a list of freely downloadable applications that work "out of the box" with no configuration changes.
Click -> Download application -> Install -> Run
This is exactly what we try to have with the next version of WineTools.
Right, but Mike meant "without installing any Microsoft libraries".
Sure, that's why we integrate a "native Wine" mode. I think we are looking in the same direction now. Regards Joachim von Thadden -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
On 3/16/06, Joachim von Thadden <thadden(a)web.de> wrote:
This is exactly what we try to have with the next version of WineTools.
Right, but Mike meant "without installing any Microsoft libraries".
Sure, that's why we integrate a "native Wine" mode.
I think we are looking in the same direction now.
Now you're talking! But I think it shouldn't really be a mode. Instead, it should just be a couple of checkboxes for optional things like dcom98 and IE6, shouldn't it? - Dan
Am Do, Mär 16, 2006 at 11:41:53 -0800 schrieb Dan Kegel:
Instead, it should just be a couple of checkboxes for optional things like dcom98 and IE6, shouldn't it?
I think this is not enough. After you installed IE6 how do you want to disable it? Many apps are looking directly for it. They will behave different in that case. Or did I misunderstood? Regards Joachim von Thadden -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
On 3/17/06, Joachim von Thadden <thadden(a)web.de> wrote:
Am Do, Mär 16, 2006 at 11:41:53 -0800 schrieb Dan Kegel:
Instead, it should just be a couple of checkboxes for optional things like dcom98 and IE6, shouldn't it?
I think this is not enough. After you installed IE6 how do you want to disable it? Many apps are looking directly for it. They will behave different in that case. Or did I misunderstood?
Once you've installed IE6 or dcom98, they're there for good. I just want to make sure you don't encourage users to install them. One other thing we need is an easy way to defeat those checks for particular versions of IE. For instance, many apps check one registry key, and some apps check for one particular DLL (it can be zero size, even!). Wine itself should probably come with a shell script that creates these, and wineconf and/or your tool should provide an easy way to run it... - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
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