On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:47:39PM +0100, wino@piments.com wrote:
Does someone want to reign in this fuck-wit before she pisses of the whole community?
Well, tell this to Alexandre as he removed the '-h' stuff some time ago (we got more cases of people having problem with the 'wine foo.exe -- -a -b' syntax than with the '-h' problem).
As for the 'Start Menu', it's a packaging issue, not really a Wine issue per se.
And finally, why should we prevent people from running Wine as root ? I played the complete MI3 game as root (to have DGA support) and it worked just fine :-)
I still have problem with this whole discussion(s): people who do not know Linux should never use a command line window and should do everything from the start / run / foot / ... menu from their favourite distribution.
If someone starts Wine from the command line, I certainly expects him/her to be at least knowledgeable enough in how Linux works.
So effort should be spent on Desktop integration instead of futile stuff like adding '-h' help message or a 'running as root' protection.
Make of it what you like, I'm tired of pissing into the wind. See you all in 10 years time for 1.0
Yup, maybe by then we will see some patches too instead of just rants ?
Lionel