Wine 0.9 config applets?

[Shachar Shemesh]

I don't think Viruses are a major issue. The way I see it, there are 
currently several functions wineboot fulfils, and we need to consider 
all of them:

   1. Boot time operations - renaming pending files (wininit.ini and the
      pendingrename registry key)
   2. Startup operations - runservices and runservicesonce and such.
   3. Session startup:
         1. Install related operations - RunOnce
         2. Permenant operations - Run, startup folder etc.

Wineboot currently focuses on 1, 2 and 3.1. This gives me the ability to 
consider running it on wineserver *shutdown* (and when Alexander 
suggested it, it sounded crazy to me, how times change). If we implement 
the startup related activities as well, that will not be an option. (the 
problem with running it on startup is the race condition between the 
renames and the program starting). I think I have a solution to that 
problem, in the form of command parameters, but I'll be smarter when 
things progress.

As for the virus problem - while I guess I can disable startup, I'm not 
sure it's the right idea. We are attempting to immitate the genuine 
Windows environment, and that means, among other things, startups. The 
more we progress, the more habitable our environment is going to be to 
viruses and malwares. I don't think there is much we can do about it.

The user, on the other hand, would like to have a conveiniant 
environment. Having many switches and tweaks will not improve their 
ability to control Wine, quite the contrary.

            Shachar

Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

>In this case make sure we can desactivate it.
>I dont want to see a plug-in/virus/popup generator/something else
>loading itself automatically
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>>>Well wineboot needs to be automatically run, either at startup or
>>>shutdown or whatever. Other than that, yep, it's all making good
>>>progress it seems.
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>>I'll try to get that in sometimes during this coming week.
>>
>>            Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
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