[Wine]june 2005 release and 'registry' ?

[Peter Birch]

There are a very large number of options that were in the config file 
that are not in winecfg.  Some of these options made a big difference as 
far as performance went for some of the applications I use.

Mike Hearn wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 11:07 -0700, Dan Sawyer wrote:
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>>Mike,
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>>Given that we take your point, how can winecfg be made 'optional'.
>>There are many of us that are trying to use wine and find winecfg
>>creates roadblocks. If winecfg will be unnecessary then why not remain
>>with the config option. At least that is easily managable.
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>What roadblocks exactly does it create? It could use some polish for
>sure, but it seems to basically work (at least, it does for me).
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>A few things it could do better are:
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>- Imported pre-canned application setups (basically .reg files)
>- Drive detection sometimes creates a lot of drives
>- Could be prettier: using app icons would be a good start but as always
>  with win32 the code to do that is non-trivial
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>The thing about winecfg shrinking is a long term thing. It won't happen
>tomorrow. For a few things, it may never happen, it'll just become less
>and less necessary to run it as time goes on. It's an ideal to which we
>aim rather than a fixed target.
>
>thanks -mike
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