Re: Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Louis wrote: >As a frequent wine-user my favourite commands are >"rm -rf ~/.wine" and "wineserver -k" Me, too. Hard to control that urge while dogfooding, it's it? >And that's where i ran into trouble... First >problem solved by consequently using > WINEPREFIX="/c" wine "c:\Program Files/Winamp/

Re: Updated DDraw over WineD3D patch

2006-03-14 Thread Joseph Garvin
So I gave the latest version of Fallout1 a try with the patch, imageshack link to screenshot below :) http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/311/fallout7xc.png The game looks and works mostly correctly with only two issues: 1) The mouse lags, even though the game itself seems to be rendering pretty

Free mirror for .deb APT repository (forwarded correspondance)

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
Hey guys. For the past few days I've been corresponding with Pieter de Bruijn, who has graciously offered us a huge amount of bandwidth to host the APT repository for our .deb packages, rather than having to put it in the sourceforge webspace where it is rather slow and times out a lot. By my est

Re: Vista compatibility page

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:56 +, Mike Hearn wrote: > Potentially this is old news, but via Raymond Chen we learn of this page: > > So there we have it - this appears to be the first release in which they > simply started dropping APIs. > And, therefore, the first time for which we can categoric

Vista compatibility page

2006-03-14 Thread Mike Hearn
Potentially this is old news, but via Raymond Chen we learn of this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/AppComp.asp Which talks about Vistas application compatibility. Interesting points that stand out: * They are dropping WinHelp and CHM support

Re: need advise with new open-source project

2006-03-14 Thread Nuno Lopes
First let me thank you for your fast answer. On 3/14/06, Jim White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL > > Nuno Lopes wrote: > > > I'm currently trying to start a new open-source project that will do > > the same as WINE did with the windows API, but for a

Re: Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Mike Hearn
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:54:28 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > 3) It took me a while to figure out how to copy and paste in putty, Heh, it takes me a while to figure that out on Windows too. I don't think there IS any UI for it, I keep expecting it to be in the window menu but to paste you actually have t

Re: opengl32: make the old code before the "sync the dibsection to its pixmap" patch be selectable at runtime.

2006-03-14 Thread Leon Freitag
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 05:44:57PM +0100, Leon Freitag wrote: > > The patch > > http://source.winehq.org/git/?p=wine.git;a=commit;h=13268261bbe0d4013937a > >6a9804fbda378244512 has introduced an annoying performance regression > > which affected all opengl games. (see > > http://bugs.winehq.org/s

Re: Some Processor(s) specific environment variables

2006-03-14 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Paul Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it be acceptable to put some sane defaults in wine.inf and have > GetSystemInfo check and fill the correct keys in the registry? Or do we > need a way to fill these keys at every boot of the system (start of > wineserver)? We can either put defaults

Re: Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Tom Spear
While we are on the subject of dogfooding things, to the best of anyone's knowledge, has anyone ever tried to do something as crazy as oh i dunno, defragging their hard drive (or even one of the virtual partitions) with win98's defragger?  What about running win98's gui'based scandisk on either of

Re: Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Louis Lenders
Dan Kegel kegel.com> writes: > > I've been dogfooding Wine with Firefox for some time. > It's totally usable and good looking now. Hi Dan, inspired by you i decided to go this way as well. I've remeoved shortcut buttons to xmms and mozilla (linux) from my task bar and replaced them by shortcuts

Re: OLEAUT32: bug 4502 - request for comment before trying to fix

2006-03-14 Thread Robert Shearman
Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: I would like to draw attention to bug 4502. This bug can cause any VB application to crash when the DatePicker control is used, and an attempt is made to assign a date value in VB code. Even though I found this bug while testing an appl

Re: Some Processor(s) specific environment variables

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Vriens
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 19:13 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:35:39PM +0100, Paul Vriens wrote: > > Hi, > > > > there are some processor specific environment variables: > > > > NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1 > > PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 > > PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Mo

Re: Some Processor(s) specific environment variables

2006-03-14 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:35:39PM +0100, Paul Vriens wrote: > Hi, > > there are some processor specific environment variables: > > NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1 > PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 > PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 9 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel > PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 > PROCESSOR_REVISION=09

Some Processor(s) specific environment variables

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Vriens
Hi, there are some processor specific environment variables: NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1 PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 9 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 PROCESSOR_REVISION=0908 (from a VMware box). These variables exist in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Cu

Re: Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On 3/14/06, Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Anyway, since Firefox is in fairly good good shape, I'm > > now running putty under wine instead of using linux's built-in ssh. > > Cool. IIRC putty builds as a Winelib app just fine, not that > it makes a

Re: Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Dimi Paun
From: "Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyway, since Firefox is in fairly good good shape, I'm > now running putty under wine instead of using linux's built-in ssh. Cool. IIRC putty builds as a Winelib app just fine, not that it makes a difference... :) -- Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lattica,

Dogfood status

2006-03-14 Thread Dan Kegel
I've been dogfooding Wine with Firefox for some time. It's totally usable and good looking now. The four open bugs, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4523 (copy/paste problem) http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4528 (too tall) http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4762 (flash crash) http:

Re: opengl32: make the old code before the "sync the dibsection to its pixmap" patch be selectable at runtime.

2006-03-14 Thread Huw D M Davies
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 05:44:57PM +0100, Leon Freitag wrote: > The patch > http://source.winehq.org/git/?p=wine.git;a=commit;h=13268261bbe0d4013937a6a9804fbda378244512 > has introduced an annoying performance regression which affected all opengl > games. (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?

Launch native Linux apps? YES!!

2006-03-14 Thread penna
Hi all, You can find more information on launching native Linux apps at the wiki: http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Advanced_Wine_User_Information#Runing_Linux_software_From_Wine The example there works for any extension you want: .ODT, .DOC, .XLS, .PDF, .ODS, .RTF, .JPG and s

Re: wine and rpath

2006-03-14 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Ivars Strazdins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > recently introduced rpath sets rpath to $ORIGIN > I wonder if $ORIGIN/../lib would not be more appropriate? Or is this > something my build-system specific? It's supposed to be set to $ORIGIN/../lib, it sounds like something went wrong wi