[GSoC] Control panel proposal

Magdalena Nowak lena.m.nowak at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 06:22:50 CDT 2012


On 6 April 2012 11:06, André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de> wrote:
> Am 06.04.2012 01:35, schrieb Magdalena Nowak:
>> Hey André,
>>
>> On 5 April 2012 22:46, André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The second solution would be to have a separate applet for
>>>> per-application settings. The screens would be stored in a DLL, for
>>>> example, as to avoid duplication.
>>>
>>> I dislike that, that seems just like a new view of winecfg. Further i doubt that you can store Wine specific things in a Wine specific DLL.
>>
>> I didn't like this idea either, but I have included it for the sake of
>> completeness.
>
> That's good :)
>
>>> I think this project is doable, but might be hard to get the patches accepted i guess.
>>
>> What makes you say that?
>
> One or two people already tried IIRC and failed, but most likely they missed the part with the per-app configuration that you have seen.

I think it's a great feature, but very hard to implement. That's why
I've had a few ideas in mind.

> Further you have to keep in mind that winecfg is a historical app, you'll need a nice and clean incremental way of patching it out.

That's why I want to work incrementally, (c.f. the timeline on my proposal).

> For further communication please CC wine-devel.

Oops!

BTW, the proposal can be found on
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/magdalena/1



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