On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:50:50AM -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
I used the options specified for [wine] in the Wine Options Status page [1] to create a new wine options tab for winecfg.
I think we intentionally omitted such a page before. The thinking is that these are really low-level settings that normal users shouldn't touch. Those who *need* to for whatever strange reason can use regedit to do so.
This is why it is important to have an up-to-date status_options page to begin with, so that people at least have a chance of knowing what options are available (for those not accessible via winecfg).
Maybe we can have an advanced options tab or something? I think it would be useful for developers to be able to be able to adjust as many useful options as possible without having to edit the registry directly.
Chris
On 5/5/05, Dimitrie O. Paun dpaun@rogers.com wrote:
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:50:50AM -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
I used the options specified for [wine] in the Wine Options Status page [1] to create a new wine options tab for winecfg.
I think we intentionally omitted such a page before. The thinking is that these are really low-level settings that normal users shouldn't touch. Those who *need* to for whatever strange reason can use regedit to do so.
This is why it is important to have an up-to-date status_options page to begin with, so that people at least have a chance of knowing what options are available (for those not accessible via winecfg).
-- Dimi.
On Thu, 05 May 2005 08:43:00 -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
I think we intentionally omitted such a page before. The thinking is that these are really low-level settings that normal users shouldn't touch. Those who *need* to for whatever strange reason can use regedit to do so.
Yeah, I was *going* to say that until I read the patch. But these options seem quite sane and easy to understand, and also quite hard to remove. Here they are:
* Show symbolic links * Show dot files (should maybe renamed to "show hidden files") * Path environment variables
I'm not sure about the last one but the first two should almost certainly have options: it'll be a constant stream of questions if we don't. They affect end users directly and should be configurable. Maybe once we have some algorithm to detect infinite symlink loops we can remove that option.
So, I reckon it should go in. Just my €2 ;)
thanks -mike
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