GSoC
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 17:12:48 CDT 2008
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Maarten Lankhorst
<m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 2008/3/13, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org>:
>
>
> > Christopher Harvey wrote:
> > > I've had a few ideas that I thought of on my own, but now I'm starting
> > > to see they perhaps aren't as useful as the ideas thought of by current
> > > developers, but I'll float it out there one last time. I thought it
> > > would be cool to create a wine GUI overlay for games, exactly like
> > > nvPerfHUD. The thing about doing it in wine that makes it better than
> > > nvPerHUD is the fact the to use nvPerfHUD the apps have to give
> > > permission for nvPerHUD to run on them. A wine version would actually be
> > > able to force every single 3d app, opengl or directX to output nvPerfHUD
> > > like output. Anyway, just a thought. Would I be able to apply for both
> > > of these projects and pick one last minute?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris.
> > >
> >
> >
> > After talking about the concept a bit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, I
> > really don't like the idea of a "Wine GUI" just for running Wine
> > applications. From the user's persepctive, installers for Wine
> > applications shouldn't be substantially different from any old Linux
> > installer - they just click on them, it adds something to their
> > applications menu, and from then on they can run it from there.
> >
> > Most of the futzing with applications, like messing around with native
> > dlls in winecfg, shouldn't have to be done at all. The same goes with
> > editing the registry.
> >
> > Configuration we'll never be able to eliminate completely, like
> > selecting the windows version, should ultimately be done through an
> > intuitive place and not some central "Wine configuration" program. For
> > instance, I should be able to right click a Windows application, select
> > properties, and then change the Windows version from there.
> >
> > So, yes, I agree. Winecfg is ugly and inadequate for the kind of
> > configuration our users are doing now. But before we put too much
> > effort into sprucing up Winecfg, let's instead talk about how feasible
> > it is to make it unneeded in the first place.
>
> I totally agree that a wine gui is not what we want. ui's are counter
> productive.
> I also found that I need winecfg less and less, I now run winecfg only
> to set the windows version to vista. Maybe we should make this version
> the default now? More and more applications don't want to run with
> windows version set to 2000, and it should just work.
>
> Cheers,
> Maarten.
>
>
>
There was a discussion a while back about setting the default version
to XP. Vista may be a bad default, considering how badly it's been
running, I wouldn't be surprised if some apps start including their
own workarounds for Vista.
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