Wine ToDo's

[Thomas Wickline]

Hello,

Here is the current state of the ToDo's.
If anyone is aware of changes that need to be made
please let me know .

Tom

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Wine ToDo's as of  9/26/02
Contact : twickline2(a)triad.rr.com

                    Wine ToDo OverView


Window management:

    * Window management needs proper inter-process handling of
      activation, focus, repaint.
   

National Language Support:

    * ASCII function work

   
Winsock:

    * Winsock1 calls,in particular select(),use direct system calls 
instead of using related wine APIs
    * More unit tests need to be written
    * Make sure OOB data is handled properly. Check client-size blocking.
    * WS2: Support other kind of services, like IrDA.
    * Fix stubs left in ws2_32.spec.

DirectSound:

    * Make the latency configurable (tunable).
    * More intelligent prebuffering.
    * Complete support for hardware secondary buffers through the HAL
     (for a future ALSA multimedia wave audio driver).
    * 3D sound buffers.
    * Sound capture (recording).

Sound drivers:

    * Alsa driver (on final 0.9 interface)

Video:

    * Implement native codecs (RLE...)
   

GDI:

    * Write a DIB engine
    * DIB engine to do 32-bit graphics manipulation

DDE:

    * Enhance memory management issues (interprocess sending)

Wineconsole:

    * Add a (n)curse backend so that we can run CUI programs without 
using USER32 (and X11 behind)

Native programs:

    * Winhelp: fix invocation thru WinHelp
    * Winedbg: make winedbg use dbghelp DLL

File management:

    * Implement NT file namespace
    * UNC support
    * Allow flexibility in FS "mounting" (for example, SMB shares)


Fonts:

    * Support for non-TT fonts (eg Type1, bitmap, ...)
    * Support for client side rendering on non-RENDER enabled XServers
    * Subpixel rendering - a.k.a. ClearType.
    * Integration with libfontconfig
    * Reduce per font startup time.
    * Libfontconfig support


Printers:

    * Write a printer configuation applet
    * Fix the Type1 font downloader for HP4000 printers


Tools:

    * Wine installation process should install and configure wine
    * Winemaker fixes
    * Run C regression tests on Windows with MSVC
    * Compile Wine with -DSTRICT
    * Work on WRC as it does not find system headers

Instructions:

    * Write a proper Users Guide Introduction
    * Documentation updates


Aspect or Component:

    * More DLL Separation
    * BiDi support
    * Review of Wine Server Protocol
    * Finalize Server Protocol
    * PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
    * Visual C++'s native COM support
    * Add DWARF2 support
    * Speed up PDB support
    * Create replacement of browser component (Internet Explorer/I


Porting issues for Mingw/Cygwin/MS_VC

    * Better seperation of win16/32 code.
    * Remove/rewite win16/9x api dependancy on newer code
    * Remove/rewrite wineisms from code
    * Rewrite/fix unixisms in most WINE dlls
    * Documentation fixes


low priority items:

    * VxD support with dynamic loading


Add links to:

Tasklets: http://bugs.winehq.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=tasklet

tasklist: http://bugs.winehq.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=tasklist


For a full list of .9/1.0 task's

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Thomas Wickline" <twickline2(a)triad.rr.com> wrote:
> Here is the current state of the ToDo's.
> If anyone is aware of changes that need to be made
> please let me know .
> National Language Support:
>
> * ASCII function work

Could anybody explain please, what does mean this statement?

Here are (once more) items I had sent you earlier:

1. Add support for Hebrew and Arabic: worker Shachar Shemesh.
2. Add support for more keyboard layouts to x11drv.
3. Figure out what should be done for better support of Chinese, Korean,
Japan.

-- 
Dmitry.

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Here are (once more) items I had sent you earlier:
>
> 1. Add support for Hebrew and Arabic: worker Shachar Shemesh.

Actually, he had that one under "BiDi support".
> 2. Add support for more keyboard layouts to x11drv.
> 3. Figure out what should be done for better support of Chinese, Korean,
> Japan.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel(a)sun.consumer.org.il> wrote:
> > 1. Add support for Hebrew and Arabic: worker Shachar Shemesh.
>
> Actually, he had that one under "BiDi support".

Yes, I know. I would suggest to move "BiDi support" as an item
of a larger task "National Language Support".

-- 
Dmitry.

[Eric Pouech]

> Aspect or Component:
>
> * More DLL Separation
>     * BiDi support
>     * Review of Wine Server Protocol
>     * Finalize Server Protocol
>     * PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
>     * Visual C++'s native COM support
>     * Add DWARF2 support
>     * Speed up PDB support
>     * Create replacement of browser component (Internet Explorer/I
> I don't think it's a good idea to add Dwarf II support to winedbg
> (see http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/wine_and_gdb.html for the
> details)
> it would be much more valuable to add the MSC/PDB infor support to gdb
> A+