Making people aware about appdb and outdated Wine versions.
Hello, I have problem... It's know as dublication of effort. Basicly there are sites that "compeate" with appdb it means HOWTOS, test result and everyting else are distributed in few thousands forums, wikis etc... Solution is that Wine should advertice Wine AppDB so people would actully use it rather than unoffical sites. So I would like to see some AppDB "adverticement" in winecfg. Winecfg about section is one good place to inform wonders of appdb but even better would be popup window when starting winecfg(at lest in first run) that informs about appdb. Normal users obtain copy of Wine trought their package manager and that means they do not know about appdb unless they they read it somewhere. This change must be done in order to kill useless stuff like this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-496836.html Second: Old version of Wine are still quite used because of package managers just offers "stable" Wine versions over the "unstable" ones so I would like to see another popup or warning in winecfg that informs user that their Wine is getting old... so after specific number of days(from release of Wine version X) counter gives some warnings about old Wine version.
--SNIP-- Second: Old version of Wine are still quite used because of package managers just offers "stable" Wine versions over the "unstable" ones so I would like to see another popup or warning in winecfg that informs user that their Wine is getting old... so after specific number of days(from release of Wine version X) counter gives some warnings about old Wine version.
Having a popup (or anything that requires user interaction) could get really irritating - there are situations where people would use an older version of wine on purpose. Like if a large organization uses it to run one specific app, and has a specific version that works perfectly, they might not have any reason to update. How about a fixme when wine is run, informing them that the version they are running was released X long ago, and that if they have any issues they should try a newer version? It'd be nice, too, if people then reported bugs with that on the top of the output - it could save a lot of work chasing down already-fixed issues. --Matt
killertux killertux wrote:
Hello, I have problem...
It's know as dublication of effort. Basicly there are sites that "compeate" with appdb it means HOWTOS, test result and everyting else are distributed in few thousands forums, wikis etc...
Solution is that Wine should advertice Wine AppDB so people would actully use it rather than unoffical sites. So I would like to see some AppDB "adverticement" in winecfg.
Winecfg about section is one good place to inform wonders of appdb but even better would be popup window when starting winecfg(at lest in first run) that informs about appdb. Normal users obtain copy of Wine trought their package manager and that means they do not know about appdb unless they they read it somewhere.
This change must be done in order to kill useless stuff like this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-496836.html
Second: Old version of Wine are still quite used because of package managers just offers "stable" Wine versions over the "unstable" ones so I would like to see another popup or warning in winecfg that informs user that their Wine is getting old... so after specific number of days(from release of Wine version X) counter gives some warnings about old Wine version.
I agree with your comments above however in addition having read the Gentoo thread you mention, I also see what the first comment is getting at. That it's very time consuming to find which apps have Platium or Gold Status with looking at every page & version in the AppDB. The APPDB is really lacking a STATS page. i.e. A page that shows the number of apps that have results reported where maybe 80% results are Platinum or gold etc and the ability to see what apps are classied as Platinum or Gold with drawling through thousands of appdb pages to find the Gold Apps. The Stats page should be fully automated requiring nobody to update it, the system just calculates the stats from the user entered results at the results. The Stats Page should include information like ... 1. Number of Applications. 2. Number of Applications with 100% of results reporting platinum status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 3. Number of Applications with >50% of results reporting platinum status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 4. Number of Applications with 100% of results reporting gold status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 5. Number of Applications with >50% of results reporting gold status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 6. Number of Applications with 100% of results reporting Bronze status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 7. Number of Applications with >50% of results reporting Bronze status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 8. Number of Applications with 100% of results reporting garbage status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 9. Number of Applications with >50% of results reporting garbage status. Click here to see the > [LIST] 10. Number of apps with no results. 11. Which Distros are used the most > Click here to see the graph > [GRAPH] 12. List Apps that are the most active as determined from the number of comments. Click here to see the [LIST] ... ... ... etc You could even have the percentage selectable rather than just 50% or 100%. A further page with graphs showing trends would also be useful. You could instantly then see more and more APPS getting Gold or Platinum status over time ( or not ) the [LIST] should be the Application Name and you should be able to click on it to take you straight to the page.. ....... :-) Sounds like a neat little project for somebody into PHP & Mysql Regards Nick Law WoW AppDB SM
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Nick Law