Questions about Wine

Hi!
I have a question and some reminds about Wine.

1.) When it will be all applications and games supported on 100% ?

2.) Why wine doesn't accept my own config at all?

3.) Add more options to Winecfg. It will be fine and welcomed.

4.) I have small fonts in some apps (size about 4 and it has curious look)

5.) Wine doesn't link new installed apps to my desktop and "start menu"

My system is Fedora Core 5 and KDE as window manager

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:09:56AM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a question and some reminds about Wine.
> 1.) When it will be all applications and games supported on 100% ?

*NEVER*. Period.

There are way too many apps out there with very weird lowlevel hacks that
already failed to run properly on the second-less-than-newest Windows version
out there, not to mention a current Windows version. XP app compatibility
is quite bad, too (especially with XP SP2!!).

And Windows Vista (if this incredibly vaporwary beast finally makes it to
the market!) is said to have a ridiculously low appcompat rating of less than
60% currently. Even Wine probably beats that...
Not to mention that Vista will need to have 60% of its codebase rewritten,
too.

Wine appcompat rating will almost certainly never be higher than 90%,
and even that is a very optimistic number.
> 2.) Why wine doesn't accept my own config at all?

Dunno. You don't modify ~/.wine/config but registry keys instead, right?
> 3.) Add more options to Winecfg. It will be fine and welcomed.

That should answer my question about 2.), but yeah, people will add more.
> 4.) I have small fonts in some apps (size about 4 and it has curious look)

Recent fontforge issues perhaps? (see mailing list discussions)
> 5.) Wine doesn't link new installed apps to my desktop and "start menu"

Indeed, that's often less than perfect.
You might want to try a full Wine reinstall with thus a complete new
Wine registration, that might help.

Andreas Mohr

[Robert Shearman]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a question and some reminds about Wine.
>
> 1.) When it will be all applications and games supported on 100% ?

Never. Even Microsoft can't achieve 100% for new versions of Windows and 
they have their source code.
> 2.) Why wine doesn't accept my own config at all?

I don't know. What are you specifying and where?
> 3.) Add more options to Winecfg. It will be fine and welcomed.

Why? If things are autodetected and set up automatically and just work, 
surely that is better?
> 4.) I have small fonts in some apps (size about 4 and it has curious look)

Wine uses fonts from your distro. It can sometimes pick inappropriate 
ones though. The best way of fixing this is to install the webfonts from 
Microsoft.
> 5.) Wine doesn't link new installed apps to my desktop and "start menu"

CrossOver Office has over 12,000 lines of Perl code to deal with the 
complex problem of integration with the desktop in this way. Wine has 
support for one or two standards of creating menus and desktop links. If 
you can code, you should add support for your window manager standard to 
winemenubuilder, otherwise you could just advocate for all of the 
distros and desktop environments to standardise on one way of adding 
menus, links and associations.
> My system is Fedora Core 5 and KDE as window manager