Re: unix filenames in notepad

[William Poetra Yoga H]

--- Troy Rollo  wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2005 09:10, James Hawkins wrote:
> > wine wasn't designed to accept unix paths in the apis directly or to
> > display them in open file dialogs,
>
> Linux wasn't designed to run Windows applications either - these things are 
> subject to change.

Yes, and Windows applications wasn't designed to 'see' Unix paths, whether
developed on Windows (like WinZip) or on Linux (winemine).
> > This just adds complexity to an already complex beast.  Keep it simple.
>
> If it's too complex for *you* then nobody's asking *you* to implement it.
> It's 
> needed for some uses of WINE, and we have at least one corporate developer 
> and one individual developer who are willing to implement it. This pretty 
> much guarantees something will be implemented whether it's beyond your 
> capabilities or not. The only real question is what is the best *way* to 
> implement it.

Uh... it's getting hotter here...

"... one corporate developer ..." hm... ;)

*If* we're at the very least worried about not having an existing z: drive
(like with winecfg), I suggest we make z: a default drive for / (or is it
already implemented??) So if there's already an existing z: symlink in
~/.wine/dosdevices, we use that, otherwise imply z: -> /

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unix filenames in notepad

[James Hawkins]

On 5/6/05, William Poetra Yoga H  wrote:
> --- Troy Rollo  wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 May 2005 09:10, James Hawkins wrote:
> > > wine wasn't designed to accept unix paths in the apis directly or to
> > > display them in open file dialogs,
> >
> > Linux wasn't designed to run Windows applications either - these things are
> > subject to change.
>
> Yes, and Windows applications wasn't designed to 'see' Unix paths, whether
> developed on Windows (like WinZip) or on Linux (winemine).
> > > This just adds complexity to an already complex beast.  Keep it simple.
> >
> > If it's too complex for *you* then nobody's asking *you* to implement it.
> > It's
> > needed for some uses of WINE, and we have at least one corporate developer
> > and one individual developer who are willing to implement it. This pretty
> > much guarantees something will be implemented whether it's beyond your
> > capabilities or not. The only real question is what is the best *way* to
> > implement it.
>
> Uh... it's getting hotter here...
>
> "... one corporate developer ..." hm... ;)
>
> *If* we're at the very least worried about not having an existing z: drive
> (like with winecfg), I suggest we make z: a default drive for / (or is it
> already implemented??) So if there's already an existing z: symlink in
> ~/.wine/dosdevices, we use that, otherwise imply z: -> /

That's the beauty of it!  wineprefixcreate sets z: to point to /
automatically.  Of course the user can always change what z: points
to, but / is the default location.

unix filenames in notepad

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:12:22AM -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
> That's the beauty of it!  wineprefixcreate sets z: to point to /
> automatically.  Of course the user can always change what z: points
> to, but / is the default location.

James, if an application informs us somehow (TBD) that they
can handle Unix paths, there's no reason to force the silly
drive letters on Unix users. Ideally we would even hide the
drive letter combo box in the file dialogs.