Or how about this:
::Wine Compatibility:: ( ) Doesn't work at all [Garbage] ( ) Starts, but not very usable [Bronze] ( ) Basically works, a few bugs [Silver] (*) Works flawlessly [Gold]
::Extra Info:: [x] Needs Wine configuration (Windows version, sound options, regedit entries, etc.) [x] Needs a Windows DLL (has legal issues) [x] Needs a third party hack (has legal issues)
If Gold and no tick boxes are selected: Works out of the box! [Platinum]
The Extra Info tick boxes could be represented as icons accompanying the color-based Status wherever it goes. The icons should probably give a negative impression. A red color for example, although that might not get across very well, considering the color palette of WineHQ... ;)
The "has legal issues" should link to a Wine Wiki page which explains exactly what those issues are and that specific discussion on how to get those things working is not allowed at winehq.org, the mailing lists, the newsgroup or the IRC channel.
Remco
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I like this... considering how... "unskilled" many people that fill in test reports are on the AppDB, this would help make it a little more foolproof (although the "Has legal issues" bits seem rather unnecessary at the end).
Ben H.
Remco wrote:
Or how about this:
::Wine Compatibility:: ( ) Doesn't work at all [Garbage] ( ) Starts, but not very usable [Bronze] ( ) Basically works, a few bugs [Silver] (*) Works flawlessly [Gold]
::Extra Info:: [x] Needs Wine configuration (Windows version, sound options, regedit entries, etc.) [x] Needs a Windows DLL (has legal issues) [x] Needs a third party hack (has legal issues)
If Gold and no tick boxes are selected: Works out of the box! [Platinum]
The Extra Info tick boxes could be represented as icons accompanying the color-based Status wherever it goes. The icons should probably give a negative impression. A red color for example, although that might not get across very well, considering the color palette of WineHQ... ;)
The "has legal issues" should link to a Wine Wiki page which explains exactly what those issues are and that specific discussion on how to get those things working is not allowed at winehq.org, the mailing lists, the newsgroup or the IRC channel.
Remco
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Remco wrote:
Or how about this:
::Wine Compatibility:: ( ) Doesn't work at all [Garbage] ( ) Starts, but not very usable [Bronze] ( ) Basically works, a few bugs [Silver] (*) Works flawlessly [Gold]
::Extra Info:: [x] Needs Wine configuration (Windows version, sound options, regedit entries, etc.) [x] Needs a Windows DLL (has legal issues) [x] Needs a third party hack (has legal issues)
If Gold and no tick boxes are selected: Works out of the box! [Platinum]
The Extra Info tick boxes could be represented as icons accompanying the color-based Status wherever it goes. The icons should probably give a negative impression. A red color for example, although that might not get across very well, considering the color palette of WineHQ... ;)
The "has legal issues" should link to a Wine Wiki page which explains exactly what those issues are and that specific discussion on how to get those things working is not allowed at winehq.org, the mailing lists, the newsgroup or the IRC channel.
Remco
I like this idea, although I'd change "has legal issues" to "may have legal issues". Most of those DLL overrides can be obtained legally (and even if there is an EULA stating that they can only be used in Windows, in some places such clause is illegal), and there are places where circumventing copy protection schemes in order to have better usability is legal.
BTW, where I live (Brazil) it's only illegal to circumvent copy protection measures if it's done to distribute illegal copies; doing it to have better usability is perfectly legal here. And something interesting, there's a note jointly published last year by 4 brazilian ministers declaring, among other things, that DRM technologies may be against both the federal constitution and copyright law.
Fábio Oliveira Schmidt Capela darkwalker_@yahoo.com
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