On 10/31/05, Mike Hearn mike@plan99.net wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:08:36 -0500, Alex Villacís Lasso wrote:
This is a patch to fix the primary bug on DungeonKeeper. I am surprised this bug was overlooked up to 0.9, since this is such a basic characteristic of Windows.
I think the conclusion last time we looked at this was that this is actually a characteristic of Explorer, not Windows, and so it's really caused by the fact that most Wine users run the apps from the command line not via the shortcuts. If you run Dungeon Keeper in the wrong way from the command line in Windows it'll crash too IIRC.
This is a quite interesting theory. So I went ahead and tried to launch LogicWorks with a "windows" method in wine, and well, I've failed so far with wine's ProgMan.exe. The progman crashes anyway I've tried.
So I boot to windows and try logicworks from cmd.exe. Indeed, I hit the same bug as in wine. So what we have are programs that expect a certain behavior and the command line doesn't do it. Bad design.
So could we have a program or launcher in wine to launch programs the "windows" way?
Jesse