Say, if we're expecting people to use Wine for real work, maybe we should start doing that ourselves.
Firefox-1.5 runs pretty well on Wine. How many Wine developers use it on Wine as their main web browser? Maybe we could raise that number from zero to somewhere around ten, and flush out a couple bugs.
Speaking of flushing out bugs, OpenOffice 1.1 was said to work well under wine a couple years ago (though I don't think I ever saw it do so myself). Sadly, although OpenOffice 1.1.5 seems to install fine under current wine, it crashes quickly on startup, so I guess we have a bit of work to do first. The extra payoff would be being able to use http://qa.openoffice.org/qatesttool/ to run OpenOffice's automated test suite as an automated regression test for wine.
One complication in all this is having to teach yourself to not automatically blow away your ~/.wine directory when trying a new app!
OK, baby's waking up, time to go. Cheers, Dan
-- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
I like the sound of these ideas very much.. Should we check the ability to just run the apps, or the apps and any extensions or plugins they might support?
I suppose the 2nd one would make more sense, cause thats why people use firefox, to get more out of their browser, but it is a question in my mind nonetheless.
Also, do we have any steady IE testers? It would be nice to find out if any version of IE is currently working (registry hacks welcome), and what would be needed to get it to work if not? The reason for this is simple... Maxthon.
Tom
Dan Kegel wrote:
Say, if we're expecting people to use Wine for real work, maybe we should start doing that ourselves.
Firefox-1.5 runs pretty well on Wine. How many Wine developers use it on Wine as their main web browser? Maybe we could raise that number from zero to somewhere around ten, and flush out a couple bugs.
Speaking of flushing out bugs, OpenOffice 1.1 was said to work well under wine a couple years ago (though I don't think I ever saw it do so myself). Sadly, although OpenOffice 1.1.5 seems to install fine under current wine, it crashes quickly on startup, so I guess we have a bit of work to do first. The extra payoff would be being able to use http://qa.openoffice.org/qatesttool/ to run OpenOffice's automated test suite as an automated regression test for wine.
One complication in all this is having to teach yourself to not automatically blow away your ~/.wine directory when trying a new app!
OK, baby's waking up, time to go. Cheers, Dan
-- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv
Also, do we have any steady IE testers? It would be nice to find out if any version of IE is currently working (registry hacks welcome), and what would be needed to get it to work if not? The reason for this is simple... Maxthon.
I have msie 6.0 sp1 installed in general, because I need it for various apps(Steam, Palm Destop and friends), and I try if it's running sometimes after updates(Well, if I install it, I can also check if it works). It worked at ususal the last weeks / months: Tricky to install, needs a bunch of native dlls to work, unstable, but in general working
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