April 2008 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: [Wine] Uninstallation of Programs
by Zachary Goldberg April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM, pdsmith <wineforum-user(a)winehq.org> wrote: <snip> > > $ wine uninstaller > > Will launch the uninstaller, but it doesn't always work too well, and > it's not a high priority to fix. Should we perhaps reconsider that for 1.0? Perhaps something worth fixing during the freeze? > If you want to remove all programs > and settings, you can do > $ rm -rf ~/.wine > > To start fresh. It will be recreated whenever you run any wine program. > > -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania

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Please add wine-0.9.59 to bugzilla
by Vitaliy Margolen April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Could someone add the newest Wine version to buzilla? Vitaliy.

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Better sound support
by Kacper Pluta April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Hey, do you plan on enabling handling of 24bit sound and sampling frequencies 96000 or 192000? Lots of musicians using Linux need to use VST and VSTi plugins (through FST and other methods). Unfortunately quality of music you can acquire isn't realy high if you wish to use it professionally. I'd also suggest correcting MIDI handling and integrating wine with wineasio, which would enable using VST and VSTi on a quite high level, as well as use other programmes.

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New Valgrind errors in user32
by Dan Kegel April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Hey Lei, this morning's git brought one new valgrind error, and it happens to be in a file you touched in the last day or so: + Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) + at EDIT_BuildLineDefs_ML (edit.c:1280) + by EDIT_EM_ReplaceSel (edit.c:3260) + by EDIT_WM_Char (edit.c:4035) + by EditWndProc_common (edit.c:859) + by EditWndProcA (edit.c:1103) + by (within /home/dank/wine-git/dlls/user32/user32.dll.so) + by call_window_proc (winproc.c:457) + by WINPROC_call_window (winproc.c:2207) + by call_window_proc (message.c:1616) + by send_message (message.c:2438) + by SendMessageA (message.c:2583) + by test_enter (edit.c:1654) + by func_edit (edit.c:1977) + by run_test (test.h:406) + by main (test.h:455) Could you have a look? See http://kegel.com/wine/valgrind/logs-2008-04-10/vg-user32_edit-diff.txt http://kegel.com/wine/valgrind/logs-2008-04-10/vg-user32_edit.txt Thanks, Dan

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Wine running (not so) random applications (with a few bugs)...
by Reece Dunn April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Several releases back, I tried getting the Cepstral SwiftTalker Text-To-Speech program working, but to no avail. I tried again last night and was surprised that it worked! So I decided to throw several applications at Wine out of the box, with no modifications and see how well it did. These are my findings: == Firefox 3 (Beta 4) I have basically reproduced Dan Kegel's findings (including bugs 12305 and 1237). I also successfully upgraded from beta 4 to 5 and ran in both XP and Vista modes. Other things I noticed: * firefox dialogs (e.g. the "Default Browser" dialog) are cropped at the bottom, cutting off the buttons (bug 12511). Verdict: Very close to perfect. Usable for most things with a few minor annoyances. == Cepstral SwiftTalker (http://downloads.cepstral.com/downloads/) This is a text-to-speech program that I use constantly. It now works under Wine - yay! Using an unregistered voice, voice rendering is smooth and sentence reading highlighting is synchronised perfectly, even at 374 words per minute! Issues: * Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End don't work as on Windows (go to the start/end of the document). This is the same in notepad (bug 12512). * Changing the voice speed also changes the font to Courier New Italic. It looks like the SwiftTalker application is using Courier New initially (and rendering correctly on startup), but when you edit the Tools->Options, it does not find Courier New in the available fonts (bug 12513). * There is a slight audio glitch when using a registered voice that is noticeable either as a pop or as an overlapped playback with the previous word whenever there is a sentence changeover. This is hardly noticable on the default 170 WPM, but is more pronounced on my default 247 WPM setting. Verdict: Near perfect. The audio glitch can get irritating at times and is the only thing preventing me giving this a Perfect verdict. == Popcap Games There can't be an application test list without mentioning games, so here we are. The games tested were: * Peggle (http://popcap.com/games/peggle) * Bejeweled 2 (http://popcap.com/games/bejeweled2) The games run smoothly, including sound, full screen graphics and custom cursors. Issues: * The installer fails to create Uhttp://mail.google.com/mail/RL links (e.g. http://www.popcap.com) * Selecting hardware acceleration from within Peggle causes the game to render a black screen. Verdict: Perfect. == Yahoo Games (http://games.yahoo.com/downloads) Even more games, e.g. Aveyond. Issues: * Could not get past the initial page as the gecko HTML engine failed to install resulting in the "HTML rendering is currently disabled" text appearing. This is a regression, as it worked in older versions of Wine. NOTE: I haven't done a bisect yet. Verdict: Non-starter. Thanks for all the great work. Wine keeps on improving release on release and continues to amaze me. Special thanks to the CodeWeavers team and the DirectX developers for all the hard work gone into making Wine what it is today. - Reece

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[PATCH] winecfg => control panel applets patch
by pure_evil＠mail.bg April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

Frank Richter wrote: >On 10.04.2008 09:47, pure_evil at mail.bg wrote: > > >>However, since control panel does not utilize Unicode yet, the additionalb >>Bulgarian translation matches the English one. >> >> > Even for non-Unicode apps you should have no problems with adding a > Bulgarian translation to a GUI app (when Bulgarian is selected as your > preferred language the active codepage will be chosen accordingly). > Maybe you used a wrong charset? You should use the Windows charset or > use #pragma (see >http://wiki.winehq.org/Developers-Hints?highlight=%28Developers%29#head-ef4… >) >Mikołaj Zalewski Hmmm, I'll have to check up on that. The translations themselves are for the description/title that appears under the applet in the control panel. Once launched,(LANG=bg_BG) the winecfg translations take over and no problem there, just the unicode thing looks like rubbish under the icon. And, has twice as many characters as the text itself, which points to a problem within the control, rather than the codepage (?) - most probably, usage of ASCII rather than Unicode in control itself. -ugh if this message also ends up as a new thread I'm gonna shoot KMail and try to get a decent program that doesn't f* up mail lists... suggestions?-

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Re: [PATCH] winecfg => control panel applets patch
by pure_evil＠mail.bg April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

> However, since control panel does not utilize Unicode yet, the additionalb > Bulgarian translation matches the English one. > So what's the point of that "translation" then? Right now it doesn't add > anything worthwhile but increases the patch size - not good. Well, it was intended as a template and as a "forward compatibility" thing. (I know, it's REALLY annoying to have a stub mark the beginning of a 400 lines+ of patch. ugh. don't know why that one came to be the first file... It's place is somewhere in-between the icons IMHO.) > You probably increase the chance of your patch being accepted by leaving > out that not-really-a-translation. I'd recommend you submit that as a > patch at a later point of time. It probably also makes sense to properly > "unicodify" the control panel before supplying a language that needs it. Control panel doesn't support Unicode, so I could've dropped all that language mumbo-jumbo alltogether - it indeed adds a lot of overhead and complexity to the entire thing. However, I wanted to provide a forward-compatible solution (and, Dan Kegel said straight: go for Unicode!), rather than coding for-the-moment. (which also explains the *not-so-optimal* way I handled the winecfg mod itself. Now I understand a new tab is to be added... and with a slight modification, a seventh applet will appear. (and it'll require less time to do than to draw the icon) And really, introducing a new capability (home-grown applets), modifying winecfg -and- unicodifying control panel at the same time would've been a tad overkill. I was thinking of (should the control panel be accepted at all) unicodifying the control and providing the right translation for the applets in the next patch, in which case I'd be modifying only the pre-existing .rc rather than poking in the applet source. /Then again, a few languages might not actually require Unicode for those texts, so, someone seeing that it's capable of being translated speaking the right language.../

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Re: Wine malware story
by Michael Ost April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

"Dan Kegel" <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote: > http://www.thaibrother.com/blog/?p=1047 > is a fairly thin article about malware in wine; > it's worth mentioning only because it shows > the issue is getting discussed more. As Wine gains functionality --- supporting Windows services, binary drivers, registry startup programs, etc --- it seems like it will be more vulnerable on this score. From my somewhat naive point of view regarding Windows malware, I would like to see Wine have the option of only running the app that I asked it to and not a bunch of other stuff that gets auto-loaded and run. An option like that could be billed as making Wine "safer" than Windows. I'm also really glad that my Wine-based product is moving away from running Wine as root! Cheers... mo

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Re: [PATCH] winecfg => control panel applets patch
by Frank Richter April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

On 10.04.2008 09:47, pure_evil(a)mail.bg wrote: > However, since control panel does not utilize Unicode yet, the additionalb > Bulgarian translation matches the English one. So what's the point of that "translation" then? Right now it doesn't add anything worthwhile but increases the patch size - not good. You probably increase the chance of your patch being accepted by leaving out that not-really-a-translation. I'd recommend you submit that as a patch at a later point of time. It probably also makes sense to properly "unicodify" the control panel before supplying a language that needs it. -f.r.

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Wine malware story
by Dan Kegel April 11, 2008

April 11, 2008

http://www.thaibrother.com/blog/?p=1047 is a fairly thin article about malware in wine; it's worth mentioning only because it shows the issue is getting discussed more.

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