New winetricks 20110105: improved download error recovery, added first-run optin dialog. New winetricks 20110105-alpha: menu divided into categories, added 35 games
Another month, another Winetricks - or, rather, two new Winetricks.
New version 20110105 has only two notable changes:
1. it will retry a corrupt download for you (this should get rid of most cryptic warnings about needing to rename a file and retry),
2. a first run dialog now asks whether you'd like to help winetricks development by reporting usage stats. You should only see this dialog once (and only if you're using the gui, and only if you're using zenity). This has been very helpful already, as people have been running it from svn. Please let me know what you think of it.
Online as always at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Experimental new version 20110105-alpha has a few further changes: 3. The menu is now broken up by category; there's now a top-level menu which gives you a choice of category (dll, font, app, or setting). This ought to make the menu a little less overwhelming. Let me know what you think of the new menu navigation. 4. There's now a progress dialog during downloads in gui mode. 5. It should work better when the user has removed the Z: drive. 6. It's been refactored to make adding new verbs much easier (you no longer have to edit the script in multiple places to add a verb, and you can even put verbs in external files). 7. Added 35 games. (A bunch more remain to be ported from wisotool.) 8. Removed (or, rather, haven't ported yet) a number of less-common verbs. The statistics gathered by the new version will tell us which of the remaining verbs to port first.
The experimental version is only at http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks-alpha
SVN and bug tracker are online at http://winezeug.googlecode.com
Changes in version 20110105:
Dan Kegel:
- remove old synonym dotnet2 for dotnet20 - mpc: remove broken call to append_path - handle 'winetricks win31 vista' properly - make dotnet20sp2 warn that it's broken. Don't list in menu. - w_download: don't redownload if no expected checksum given. Also remove == typo from r2207. - don't declare checksum error unless, y'know, there was a checsum error - as favor for etersoft, avoid referring directly to zenity/kdialog/xmssage to avoid pulling them all in as dependencies when building a package - automatically retry download once if cached file has wrong checksum - ie8: avoid writing to / (just like ie7 fix). Don't bother running ie8 when finished; point user to workaround instead. Also move a verb that got sandwiched between ie6 and ie7. - ie7: when / is writable as on macosx, move z: out of the way during ie7 install to avoid scribbling temporary files in /. Had to run with WINEDEBUG=warn+heap to avoid memory bugs in setupapi? - when reporting usage, also report version. - in zenity gui case, ask user on first run whether to opt in to usage reporting. - on MacOS X, put cache in /home/dank/Library/Caches - delete msxml6.dll before running installer. Fixes bug 211. - tahoma: don't download to top of cache - finish renaming WINETRICKS_UNIXQUIET to W_UNATTENDED_DASH_Q - make cabextract quiet
Austin English:
- add win31 verb (needed internally by ole2)
On 5 January 2011 22:45, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Another month, another Winetricks - or, rather, two new Winetricks.
Very nice!
Here is some games information you may find useful:
== Big Fish Games client
winetricks -- gecko ie8 * gecko -- suppress the gecko download UI, not strictly necessary * ie8 -- I find that with newer versions of wine (since the IUri support?) IE8 works well for the client; for older versions of wine, ie6 works.
PROGRAM = c:\Program Files\bfgclient\bfgclient.exe
== Bejeweled 3 (PopCap Games)
winetricks -- gecko msls31 riched30 * gecko -- suppress the gecko download UI, not strictly necessary * msls31 -- suppress a "dll not found" error using native riched30; works without this, you just get an annoying dialog box :) * riched30 -- the popcap game installer hang when viewing the license agreement on recent wine versions (or recent popcap installers); this prevents the hang [http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25455]
PROGRAM = c:\Program Files\PopCap Games\Bejeweled 3\Bejeweled3.exe
NOTE: Bejeweled 3 crashes on exit (D3D reference error?) and then hangs (audio thread deadlock?), but is otherwise very playable :).
- Reece
Dear Dan Kegel, Thanks for your nice work again! After install ie6 with winetricks, I found that png images can't display in IE6, I download pngfilt.dll manually and regist it with wine regsvr32, then IE6 display png files well. Will winetricks add pngfilt.dll verb, or add integrate pngfilt.dll installing in winetricks ie6 ? I'm not sure weather it is a bug, should I report it as a new issue?
Many thanks again! Best wishes.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
- ie8: avoid writing to / (just like ie7 fix). Don't bother running
ie8 when finished; point user to workaround instead. Also move a verb that got sandwiched between ie6 and ie7.
- ie7: when / is writable as on macosx, move z: out of the way during
ie7 install to avoid scribbling temporary files in /. Had to run with WINEDEBUG=warn+heap to avoid memory bugs in setupapi?
On 01/06/2011 06:52 PM, Qian Hong wrote:
Thanks for your nice work again! After install ie6 with winetricks, I found that png images can't display in IE6, I download pngfilt.dll manually and regist it with wine regsvr32, then IE6 display png files well. Will winetricks add pngfilt.dll verb, or add integrate pngfilt.dll installing in winetricks ie6 ?
Actually shouldn't IE6 just die?
bye michael
I'm not sure weather it is a bug, should I report it as a new issue?
Many thanks again! Best wishes.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com mailto:dank@kegel.com> wrote:
- ie8: avoid writing to / (just like ie7 fix). Don't bother running ie8 when finished; point user to workaround instead. Also move a verb that got sandwiched between ie6 and ie7. - ie7: when / is writable as on macosx, move z: out of the way during ie7 install to avoid scribbling temporary files in /. Had to run with WINEDEBUG=warn+heap to avoid memory bugs in setupapi?
Dear Michael Stefaniuc, I can't agree more with you, IE6 must die, the sooner the better. But unfortunately, sometimes I can't leave IE6. For example,my online bank is IE only, it can't work without ActiveX. Maybe you'll suggest me to change another online bank without ActiveX, but unfortunately again, my student card is bundling with that bank, so as everyone in our school. Serveral websites of our school are IE only.
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Michael Stefaniuc mstefani@redhat.comwrote:
Actually shouldn't IE6 just die?
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Qian Hong fracting@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Michael Stefaniuc, I can't agree more with you, IE6 must die, the sooner the better. But unfortunately, sometimes I can't leave IE6. For example,my online bank is IE only, it can't work without ActiveX. Maybe you'll suggest me to change another online bank without ActiveX, but unfortunately again, my student card is bundling with that bank, so as everyone in our school. Serveral websites of our school are IE only.
The idea is to use IE7 and deprecate IE6 (for use in working around wine bugs). Wine's internal infrastructure is now closer to the IE7 design, and installing IE6 can make things worse, not better.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Qian Hong fracting@gmail.com wrote:
After install ie6 with winetricks, I found that png images can't display in IE6, I download pngfilt.dll manually and regist it with wine regsvr32, then IE6 display png files well. Will winetricks add pngfilt.dll verb, or add integrate pngfilt.dll installing in winetricks ie6 ?
Yes. Good idea. I've done this in winetricks-alpha. Thanks for the bug report! - Dan
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