Robert Millan skrev:
I mean the standard windows. I usually recommend to disable them, but the
unexperienced user gets easily confused, and sometimes they don't know how to
do it.
Allright. I might consider stopping using winelauncher if:
* The Wine developers *actually* don't want people to use winelauncher.
As far as I'm concerned, Vitaliy's personal opinion counts for exactly
zero, or less than zero. He's a rabid fanboy, a partisan, a zealot, and
such people may *appear* smart, but are in reality usually totally
incapable of thinking for themselves, even though they're good at
maintaining the illusion that they do. This can make them dangerous. So,
currently, it seems the real Wine developers have begun considering
revoking Vitaliy's bugzilla privileges. About time, I think.
And in this case, as in 50% of all other cases he's involved in, he
doesn't know what he's talking about. The original purpose of
winelauncher was not even close to what he says. Admittedly some of
those purposes would be obsolete now, due to fundamental changes to
Wine's core since then, but it doesn't change the fact that he
demonstrably has no clue.
Hence, I'd prefer to see someone with *real* authority in the Wine
project saying "don't use winelauncher", before ceasing its usage. (And
yeah, Alexandre committing a patch that removes it would probably be
very convincing...)
* And someone wrote a patch or something to make wine-safe and wine-auto
put up dialog boxes without the winelauncher (perhaps by splitting that
into separate scripts). Probably easy enough, but me not having to do it
myself might make it happen sooner (once I'm convinced winelauncher
really *has* outlived its usefulness).
This is based on my experience with a specific category of users. It might
be different for others, of course.
I'd probably like to know if Debian has (or plans to implement) some way
to poll package users, using the BTS, PTS, or whatever, so maintainers
could get majority opinions on stuff like "drop winelauncher? yes/no"
and "merge libwine-print into libwine? yes/no"...
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
