Installing MS Office gives error in installer

[Speeddymon]

--- Rizsanyi Zsolt <rizsanyi at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 19:51, Speeddymon wrote:
> > what i was saying before though was that the
> windows
> > link files (.lnk extension) weren't being put into
> the
> > kde menu, i believe it is a bug/problem in
> 20020411
> > wine mainly due to that fact that that wine
> wouldn't
> > install the icons but crossover office wine
> > would...who knows, all is well now on my computer
> > though.  thanks for the help guys.
> 
> The wineshelllink (the script responsible for
> installing the lnk files in the 
> desktop menu) in the cvs wine assumes, that if you
> have a .kde directory in 
> your home, then you have kde 1.x installed.
> And install kde 2.x files only if you have a .kde2
> directory in your home 
> folder.
> But on some systems (eg. RedHat), the kde config
> files are in .kde in home 
> directory. That is the reason why the .desktop files
> are not installed on 
> some systems.
> 
> I have fixed wineshelllink in my cvs copy of wine,
> but never submitted it, 
> because, I'm not really sure how to fix it to work
> on all the systems (I dont 
> know how the other packagers do it).
> But if somebody needs, it I'm attaching the patch...
> 
> Best regards
> Zsolt Rizsanyi

hmm that has me wondering...  i will take a look at
that tonight as i will have more time then (just gonna
run home to get my zip disk right now) and see what I
can come up with in terms of having wineshelllink
finding the correct version.....  we may need to
remove the direcory checking stuff altogether... i
have a couple ideas...  1) explicitly ask them for
their kde version the first time wineshelllink is run
(but then they would have to manually change the
version number if they upgrade it) 2) always ask what
the version # is... 3) read a file created by kde that
has the version # in it (if one exists) 4) run some
kde command with the --version arg and use it's output
to get the kde version if possible

1 and 2 could be implemented directly in bash but then
you have the problem of what if it doesn't get run in
a terminal, so you could also have someone make a
gtk/tk program that asks and is called from
wineshelllink or you could do both and have 1 run if
$display is set and the other one run if it isn't...

just some thoughts...

-Dustin

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