On 5/29/2010 19:17, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
Hi All,
I know it's late and we're in freeze mode now, but I wanted to offer some work I've been doing:
http://www.airwebreathe.org.uk/space/new-about-screen.png
Basically I've been giving the about page of winecfg a face lift. It seemed like a good idea to put some polish on it in time for the release. Is there any interest in pushing this? or is it too late?
It isn't a functional change so if done safely there's a chance probably.
The patches are all fairly straightforward. The only gotcha is that the modification to the page layout has to be carried across all languages without introducing any errors. I'm planning to do this with a simple script, but is there a simple way of switching between languages quickly? So I can check the layout doesn't get broken?
You need to install locales and set LC_LANG to ru_RU.UTF-8 for example.
Also, if I submit these patches - to be merged now or later, would it be better to submit all the resource language patches inidividually? or language by language?
It should be a single patch I think. Otherwise it will break other languages layout.
What do people think?
Personally I like it. A thing that bothers me is a link control. I'm not sure how good integration works for current releases, and what will happen exactly - native browser or Wine's one with a lack of all UI elements. Also gecko package should be installed if a builtin iexplore is about to be used.
Now about layout - if you want to stress a Wine word then version info should go under it. I will be nice to have a years range too here I think. A license note could go down a bit to end on low bound of a white area, also it makes sense to make it wider to use blank area at right.
Joel