[Bug 14452] New: Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

Summary: Launch Pad is weired
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I have installed on my Ubuntu first Wine 1.0, then compiled manually 1.1.0.
Since I thought I could upgrade to 1.1.1, I have run the install instructions
as written on the Internet-page for Ubuntu. This time it worked, because
previously it failed to work due to some kind of key-sign-issue.

Now I experience the very annoying problem, that the path of a launched exe is
set relative to the user and not to the programm. e.g. the user is /home/user,
the game is located in /home/user/game/dir1. The programm now takes /home/user
as a home-path and scrambles now everything up. Especially for games this is
annyoing, cause in the games there is no possibility to change the path.

Since it worked prior to the upgrade via installer, I heavily suspect the
upgrade-package.

[Bug 14452] Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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           Severity|critical                    |normal

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-07-13 23:03:40 ---
What program is that? What exactly the problem? Windows programs don't use unix
paths your described. They use windows paths.

[Bug 14452] Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

--- Comment #2 from leo   2008-07-14 02:18:19 ---
I have installed

http://www.lavalit.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=98a7b264dc5ab5654ad34b006466a3c5&...

in /home/user/game/OpenBor. (*install* = unpack and nothing more)
> From there I launch OpenBor.exe, by doubleclicking on the exe-file. Prior to

the upgrade the paths were taken from that directory. i.e. it was searched in
this dir, e.g. location of the Sounds, Pak, etc. it was written as well the Log
into /home/user/game/OpenBor/Logs.

After upgrade, now everything is taken from /home/user and written as well into
/home/user.

The programm lacks of configruation of the pathes, but anyhow it assumes that
everything is relative to the Path were the exe is loacted. And frankly said, I
have no idea, how Wine translates Unix paths to Windows paths. If it is a
configuration issue, fine. But then I wonder, why the path was matched prior to
the upgrade perfectly.

Since I see a changed behaviour after an upgrade as something serious, I have
assigned different priority then 'normal'. Anyway, I am fine as well with
'normal', although I have my problems. But the decission is up to you.

[Bug 14452] Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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           Severity|normal                      |minor

--- Comment #3 from Vitaliy Margolen   2008-07-14 15:04:37 ---
What is your drive mapping? (ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices)

Put the program into C: drive (default ~/.wine/drive_c) not arbitrary
directory. 
Run programs properly with:
cd /where/program/is
wine program.exe

See http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8d8c06cf7fb33269c085a07531b61e5c730566e0

[Bug 14452] Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

--- Comment #4 from leo   2008-07-15 01:33:03 ---
Uhu, well, that's not exactly the resolution as I wanted to have. But anyway,
if this is the limiation within Wine, I would say, there is hardly a chance
that this will be fixed anyhow. Especially since a fix is unclear how it might
look like.

Therefore I would vote, to set the Status of the Bug at least to WONTFIX. And
then  close it.

[Bug 14452] Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

Austin English  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #5 from Austin English   2009-01-12 11:58:57 ---
Invalid. There's no bug here.

[Bug 14452] Launch Pad is weired

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14452

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-01-12 23:36:23 ---
Closing invalid.