new winetricks-alpha 20110219-alpha: added wineprefix selection screen
Another day, another winetricks-alpha. (Well, it *is* alpha.) winetricks-alpha version 20110219's gui now starts with a wineprefix selection dialog. If you just click OK, it uses the default wineprefix. When using the gui, games can only be installed into their own sandboxed prefix. This keeps them from bumping into each other and making them spill their coffee, or worse. (This feature may seem odd, but it's how PlayOnLinux works, and it was specifically requested by Vitaliy Margolen in http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2011-January/088332.html ) It now has an option to delete the selected wineprefix, and if you do, it also deletes any xdg desktop menuitems that refer to it. Comments welcome. There are some quirks left to work out with the new gui behavior, so caveat downloador. Download url: http://winetricks.org/winetricks-alpha svn repository / bug tracker: http://winetricks.org Changelog: Dan Kegel: In pickprefix menu, sense dosdevices rather than user.reg; makes new wineprefixes show up immediately Deleting a wineprefix also deletes its menu items. Make default wineprefix the, um, default in pickprefix. Games are reachable only via pickprefix menu now. Experimental gui change: outer dialog is now prefix selection. Needs polish and testing still. algodoo_demo: wait for installer to finish in non-silent case Remove dead code for run and uninstall modes/menus.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:48:22 -0800 Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote:
Another day, another winetricks-alpha. (Well, it *is* alpha.)
winetricks-alpha version 20110219's gui now starts with a wineprefix selection dialog. If you just click OK, it uses the default wineprefix. 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. -- Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net>
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
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