When will ie6 registry key be added?

Lei Zhang thestig at google.com
Mon Nov 13 19:40:59 CST 2006


On 11/5/06, Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
> > On 11/5/06, *Stefan Dösinger* <stefandoesinger at gmx.at
> > <mailto:stefandoesinger at gmx.at>> wrote:
> >
> >     Will ie6 still install then?
> >
> AFAIR someone found that if we set minor version to less than the recent
> one, ie6 will install. I've never checked it.
> >
> > I wonder if we should add a listbox to winecfg to set the Internet
> > Explorer version. This matter has come up often enough that there
> > needs to be some way to set it and or toggle it for certain
> > applications. I'm thinking something like the option for like the
> > Windows version.
> IMO it's not the way to go. We should always set IE registry. The only
> app that can be affected by adding these registry keys is IE itself. If
> any other app is negatively affected, we should fix it in Wine.
>
> Jacek
>
>
>

Let's set the registry key then. Here's a patch to do it through wine.inf:

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-November/032854.html



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