winecfg dosdevices unusable

Hi,

just getting into a fresh installation with 0.9

ran up winecfg and tried to add a device for my dvd burner.

editing the device name is unusable. No cursor , then after a first  
character is entered the edit seems to jump to insert mode and puts the  
cursor at the begingin of the line. There seems no way enter text normally  
to enter a device name.

This whole interface seems badly broken. I had to fall back to good old  
command line to sort out the mess made by winecfg and add the devices I  
need.

Disappointing start to 0.9 , I wonder what new user would make of that.

hmm.

[Evil]

I noticed this as well last night when I was testing some Windows
programs for compatibility.  I'm glad Wino mentioned it here, because I
almost forgot.

I went into the dosdevices directory and set up the links manually,
because it's real hard to get non-fubar'd results with winecfg.

-Jesse

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just getting into a fresh installation with 0.9
>
> ran up winecfg and tried to add a device for my dvd burner.
>
> editing the device name is unusable. No cursor , then after a first 
> character is entered the edit seems to jump to insert mode and puts
> the  cursor at the begingin of the line. There seems no way enter text
> normally  to enter a device name.
>
> This whole interface seems badly broken. I had to fall back to good
> old  command line to sort out the mess made by winecfg and add the
> devices I  need.
>
> Disappointing start to 0.9 , I wonder what new user would make of that.
>
> hmm.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Thursday, October 27, 2005, 5:44:22 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
> just getting into a fresh installation with 0.9
> ran up winecfg and tried to add a device for my dvd burner.
> editing the device name is unusable. No cursor , then after a first  
> character is entered the edit seems to jump to insert mode and puts the  
> cursor at the begingin of the line. There seems no way enter text normally  
> to enter a device name.
> This whole interface seems badly broken. I had to fall back to good old  
> command line to sort out the mess made by winecfg and add the devices I  
> need.
> Disappointing start to 0.9 , I wonder what new user would make of that.

I don't see this being such a huge problem. As most users will use "Browse"
button. And that still works.

Also there is a bug in bugzilla about that.

Vitaliy

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:44:22AM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> Disappointing start to 0.9 , I wonder what new user would make of that.

I really should have written a mail that I thought that the 0.9 release
notification was *much* too short.
I would have expected this to be in the realms of about 2 or 3 weeks, not one
week.

Sorry that I didn't do that, especially since I'm afraid that this 0.9 release
might hurt Wine's reputation.

Andreas