Wine ToDo's

[Thomas Wickline]

Hello,

Here is the current state of the ToDo's.
If anyone is aware of changes that need to be made
please let me know .

Tom

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Wine ToDo's as of  9/26/02
Contact : [e-mail]

Wine ToDo OverView

Window management:

* Window management needs proper inter-process handling of
      activation, focus, repaint.

National Language Support:

* ASCII function work

Winsock:

* Winsock1 calls,in particular select(),use direct system calls 
instead of using related wine APIs
    * More unit tests need to be written
    * Make sure OOB data is handled properly. Check client-size blocking.
    * WS2: Support other kind of services, like IrDA.
    * Fix stubs left in ws2_32.spec.

DirectSound:

* Make the latency configurable (tunable).
    * More intelligent prebuffering.
    * Complete support for hardware secondary buffers through the HAL
     (for a future ALSA multimedia wave audio driver).
    * 3D sound buffers.
    * Sound capture (recording).

Sound drivers:

* Alsa driver (on final 0.9 interface)

Video:

* Implement native codecs (RLE...)

GDI:

* Write a DIB engine
    * DIB engine to do 32-bit graphics manipulation

DDE:

* Enhance memory management issues (interprocess sending)

Wineconsole:

* Add a (n)curse backend so that we can run CUI programs without 
using USER32 (and X11 behind)

Native programs:

* Winhelp: fix invocation thru WinHelp
    * Winedbg: make winedbg use dbghelp DLL

File management:

* Implement NT file namespace
    * UNC support
    * Allow flexibility in FS "mounting" (for example, SMB shares)

Fonts:

* Support for non-TT fonts (eg Type1, bitmap, ...)
    * Support for client side rendering on non-RENDER enabled XServers
    * Subpixel rendering - a.k.a. ClearType.
    * Integration with libfontconfig
    * Reduce per font startup time.
    * Libfontconfig support

Printers:

* Write a printer configuation applet
    * Fix the Type1 font downloader for HP4000 printers

Tools:

* Wine installation process should install and configure wine
    * Winemaker fixes
    * Run C regression tests on Windows with MSVC
    * Compile Wine with -DSTRICT
    * Work on WRC as it does not find system headers

Instructions:

* Write a proper Users Guide Introduction
    * Documentation updates

Aspect or Component:

* More DLL Separation
    * BiDi support
    * Review of Wine Server Protocol
    * Finalize Server Protocol
    * PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
    * Visual C++'s native COM support
    * Add DWARF2 support
    * Speed up PDB support
    * Create replacement of browser component (Internet Explorer/I

Porting issues for Mingw/Cygwin/MS_VC

* Better seperation of win16/32 code.
    * Remove/rewite win16/9x api dependancy on newer code
    * Remove/rewrite wineisms from code
    * Rewrite/fix unixisms in most WINE dlls
    * Documentation fixes

low priority items:

* VxD support with dynamic loading

Add links to:

Tasklets: http://bugs.winehq.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=tasklet

tasklist: http://bugs.winehq.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=tasklist

For a full list of .9/1.0 task's

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Thomas Wickline"  wrote:
> Here is the current state of the ToDo's.
> If anyone is aware of changes that need to be made
> please let me know .
> National Language Support:
> * ASCII function work

Could anybody explain please, what does mean this statement?

Here are (once more) items I had sent you earlier:

1. Add support for Hebrew and Arabic: worker Shachar Shemesh.
2. Add support for more keyboard layouts to x11drv.
3. Figure out what should be done for better support of Chinese, Korean,
Japan.

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Here are (once more) items I had sent you earlier:
> - Add support for Hebrew and Arabic: worker Shachar Shemesh.

Actually, he had that one under "BiDi support".
> - Add support for more keyboard layouts to x11drv.
> - Figure out what should be done for better support of Chinese, Korean,
>
> Japan.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh"  wrote:
> > - Add support for Hebrew and Arabic: worker Shachar Shemesh.
>
> Actually, he had that one under "BiDi support".

Yes, I know. I would suggest to move "BiDi support" as an item
of a larger task "National Language Support".

[Eric Pouech]

> Aspect or Component:
> * More DLL Separation
> * BiDi support
> * Review of Wine Server Protocol
> * Finalize Server Protocol
> * PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
> * Visual C++'s native COM support
> * Add DWARF2 support
> * Speed up PDB support
> * Create replacement of browser component (Internet Explorer/I

I don't think it's a good idea to add Dwarf II support to winedbg
(see http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/wine_and_gdb.html for the
details)
it would be much more valuable to add the MSC/PDB infor support to gdb
A+