On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Jacek Caban jack@itma.pwr.wroc.pl writes:
But PATH and temp directory are useful and can be configured this way. Maby we could add this two options?
I don't think they really need to be configured, at least not often enough to put them in winecfg.
That is the case about ordinary users.
There's no real reason to change the temp directory,
Actually, there are some reasons for power-users. One of them which hits eme is the low emtpy space on mounted partitions. When I am installing some big software I usually change the %temp% dir by editing ~/.wine/config to point it to the FS wich has enough free-space. When a new disks and partitions on my machine are going in and out I need to do the same.
While using "config" file is fine, it doesn't feel for me comfortable to use "regedit". :-P
and if an app needs a different PATH the installer for that app will change the registry itself. If users really need to change them, IMO we are doing something wrong.
Or users may be using not an ordinary softw. or may be even developing / debugging it inside the Wine, IMHO. I haven't been changing the %PATH% dir too often, but there are some console win32 utilities, made by me and such which have no installer. So, if I need to run them from the batch file at wcmd, I basically need to modify %PATH%.
Again, this may be need by power-win32-users, who basically can't stand the GUI of "regedit". :-P
PS maybe an alternative for the "winecfg" may be some cmd-line option like the "/advanced" to make such functionality available to user at run-time?