Le lun 17/01/2005 à 04:40, Joachim von Thadden a écrit :
Hi,
I am maintainer of the new WineTools package. As it is related on http://www.winehq.org/site/download under "3rd Party Tools" I want you do know that the text has to be changed, as Frank discontinued development for WineTools since a long time.
The text should be now:
WineTools is a menu driven installer for installing Windows programs under Linux written by Joachim von Thadden. This software lets you install the following Windows software: DCOM98, IE6, Windows Core Fonts, Windows System Software, Office & Office Viewer, Adobe Photoshop 7, Illustrator 9 and many other programs.
"Written by" or "maintained by"? I thought Frank wrote it in the beginning...
You can download WineTools here: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
Some of the config files included in the "wt210jo" release look somewhat out of date. The definition of drives in config has been dropped since a couple of months, as well as the definition for the System, Temp, Path and Profile environment variables, the ShellLinker key, the Resolution key (in [fonts]), the serial and parallel ports keys, the {Load,Write}HomeRegistryFiles keys, the WineLook key, and the ClearAllSelections and PersistentSelection keys (in [Clipboard]).
Some of it is now handled in the registry, some in the .wine/dosdevices dir.
Providing outdated stuff doesn't help Wine or it's users. Work on Wine or winecfg (for easier configuration) would be preferred (I know this is Free Software, so you work on what you like).
I'm not trying to dismiss WineTools, it's just that I'd much prefer people working on improving the "real" thing rather than distribute workarounds for a specific combination of Windows software and Wine release.
Vincent
Vincent Béron wrote:
Le lun 17/01/2005 à 04:40, Joachim von Thadden a écrit :
Hi,
I am maintainer of the new WineTools package. As it is related on http://www.winehq.org/site/download under "3rd Party Tools" I want you do know that the text has to be changed, as Frank discontinued development for WineTools since a long time.
The text should be now:
WineTools is a menu driven installer for installing Windows programs under Linux written by Joachim von Thadden. This software lets you install the following Windows software: DCOM98, IE6, Windows Core Fonts, Windows System Software, Office & Office Viewer, Adobe Photoshop 7, Illustrator 9 and many other programs.
"Written by" or "maintained by"? I thought Frank wrote it in the beginning...
You will see in the patch that I sent: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/01/att-0477/01-press-downl...
I removed "under Linux written by Joachim von Thadden"
As I had the exact same thoughts!
Tom
Am Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:44:09AM -0500 schrieb Tom:
You will see in the patch that I sent: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2005/01/att-0477/01-press-downl...
I removed "under Linux written by Joachim von Thadden"
As I had the exact same thoughts!
Thanks. On the WineTools webpage it says:
"WineTools was initially written by Frank Hendriksen and was extended by me (Joachim von Thadden). It is licensed under the GPL."
Regards Joachim
Am Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:06:54PM -0500 schrieb Vincent Béron:
"Written by" or "maintained by"? I thought Frank wrote it in the beginning...
Yes, it's about 10% from Frank. So it must read: started by Frank and continued by me or something like that.
Some of the config files included in the "wt210jo" release look somewhat out of date. The definition of drives in config has been dropped since a
There is not a line of drive definitions. WineTools uses config.new and config.IE6. The others are just lying around for my reference and because there are still programs that run best with wine-20031212 and config.old ;-)
couple of months, as well as the definition for the System, Temp, Path and Profile environment variables, the ShellLinker key, the Resolution key (in [fonts]), the serial and parallel ports keys, the {Load,Write}HomeRegistryFiles keys, the WineLook key, and the ClearAllSelections and PersistentSelection keys (in [Clipboard]).
Yes, you can put them in the registry. And the easiest way to do so is to put them in the config and let Wine do the integration. Works very nice!
I'm not trying to dismiss WineTools, it's just that I'd much prefer people working on improving the "real" thing rather than distribute workarounds for a specific combination of Windows software and Wine release.
Yes, but I have to work with it and so I have to work with many workarounds. And I like to share this knowledge not only with people knowing how to deal with a linux system, a compiler, a shell and many other things. Wine is useful for the many people who like to migrate to linux easily and that's what WineTools are for. Just for your info: Since the first release one December 20, 2004 there have been more than 20.000 downloads. So I think there are many people interested in running Windows apps in Wine, but so many don't know how to do it. And yes, there are many who can not follow a HowTo or get proper results by googling and trying. For them is WineTools.
Regards Joachim
Joachim von Thadden wrote:
Since the first release one December 20, 2004 there have been more than 20.000 downloads. So I think there are many people interested in running Windows apps in Wine, but so many don't know how to do it. And yes, there are many who can not follow a HowTo or get proper results by googling and trying. For them is WineTools.
Regards Joachim
Hello,
I just visited your site and looked over everything that you provide. I would only ask that you provide a link from your site to the Wine Party Fund: http://www.winehq.com/site/contributing#wpf
Or add a "Donate to Wine" with the ppdonate.png and have it linked to our PayPal account..
Why am I asking for this?
Maybe this will help us to have a WineConf each year, and help some developers who may need a little help on there travel expences....
See: http://www.winehq.com/?issue=228#Using%20Donations
Cheers,
Tom Wickline
Am Mi, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:23:21 -0500 schrieb Tom:
Joachim von Thadden wrote:
Since the first release one December 20, 2004 there have been more than 20.000 downloads. So I think there are many people interested in running Windows apps in Wine, but so many don't know how to do it. And yes, there are many who can not follow a HowTo or get proper results by googling and trying. For them is WineTools.
I just visited your site and looked over everything that you provide. I would only ask that you provide a link from your site to the Wine Party Fund: http://www.winehq.com/site/contributing#wpf
Or add a "Donate to Wine" with the ppdonate.png and have it linked to our PayPal account..
Did both.
Regards Joachim
i just wanted to pop in that i have been playing wine wine for a while now (been using linux since '94) and i LOVE winetools! especially the "simulate windows reboot". that has helped me with SO many applications. thanks i say!
for those who care, i have managed to get poser 4 to work but not poser 5. anybody manage to get 5 to work? and, alas, windoze apps are so f*cking HUGE, goodness, and memory hogs i say. oh well.
vaguegirl
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