On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:52 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:33:47AM +0200, wino@piments.com wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:37:19 +0200, Dan Kegel
wrote:
But the IE registry key is something Wine should maybe set by default.
Nonsense, then every prog would be misled as to what is present on
the
system.
At first I thought that Wine should have set it by default (just as
mentioned
in a recent wine-devel mail), but you're right, I'd say we should only
set it
once Wine is able to cover a significant amount of IE functionality
(i.e.
we do have a usefully working browser). Which might just as well be
never...
The risk of programs failing due to discovering our IE version key and
then
unsuccessfully and *silently* trying to use our horribly incomplete IE functionality is a lot worse than not having the IE key and thus
programs
usually telling the user that IE is not available and that he should
install
it.
What about a checkbox in winecfg? "Fool programs to think IE6 is installed" or something. Possibly with a dropdown box for versions.
winecfg should of course then be able to check that there is no IE installed. Or maybe a version override would be beneficial anyways..?
In any case. A program I have here will not install without IE6, and works perfectly well (except auto update) when just setting the registry setting. Saves me a lot of grief.
-HK