On Sunday 16 March 2008 11:35:39 pm you wrote:
Hi,
While I think writing control panel applets for Wine may be a good idea in general, I wonder whether the specific example you propose--a locale setting control panel--might be better served by trying to infer the correct settings from the Linux locale.
--Juan
I'm not sure how changing the decimal (in the example case) on linux would affect the linux apps themselves - will I have to switch it back and forth if another, linux app demands it to be ',' whilst the windows one wants a dot. (sorry if the question is somewhat stupid, still adapting, trying to get the windows way of thinking out of me head). So, in this particular case I was thinking of having the wine and linux locales as two different entities; After all, the win-apps only care about what the registry says, so no need to ever touch the global linux settings. (besides, the intl.cpl is the easiest and somewhat useful to make a substitute for, a nice starting point and a good test for the entire idea/toolkit; The truth is, I still haven't got much of a clue how the equivalent of appwiz.cpl would actually operate, not to mention (OMG!) hdwwiz.cpl). In a more general sense, I have fresh memories of how frustrating the migration to linux can be in terms of the crash course you take once you see the desktop. So for a new user, having his favorite apps up and running properly under wine by doing something he's used to -> Control Panel -> Regional Settings, rather than including a lesson in linux locale modification in the crash course would be nice. He can always take that lesson a few days later when he dares to get out of the box of the software he's used to ;) BTW what about the general idea, a CPL (so the name matches) which executes a .exe (which does the real job,and is easier to substitute with another .exe when/if needed)? And a little hint on the structure... It looks like there are twenty-something *usual* applets. That would make 40+ additional files in the system32... maybe a c:/windows/winecontrolapplets folder which contains the .exes?