Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
Dan Kegel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: >> I want to cut down on the number of items in the menu as it is - winecfg >> will be integrated into a System -> Preferences -> Windows Applications >> menu, browse C:\ drive will be in Places, and uninstall would go into

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
Roderick Colenbrander wrote: >> 1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means >> something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way >> configure is working. >> >> Here's the build failure I'm getting on amd64, but it fails on all >> arches: >> http://launch

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: >> dpkg-query -L wine | grep mime >> shows that the ubuntu wine package is creating a file >> /usr/lib/mime/packages/wine >> which contains lines like >> >> application/x-msdos-program; /usr/bin/wine '%s'; description=Win

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Martin Hinner wrote: > reducing our task only to maintain native Linux > shared lib for hardware access. Which means you'll have to maintain it anyway. No, what you proposed not going to fly. It can not work within Wine. It's called "hack" and things with that name not getting into Wine. Vitaliy

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Dan Kegel wrote: > dpkg-query -L wine | grep mime > shows that the ubuntu wine package is creating a file > /usr/lib/mime/packages/wine > which contains lines like > > application/x-msdos-program; /usr/bin/wine '%s'; description=Windows > Executable > application/x-msdownload; /usr/bin/wine '%s';

Re: [Bug 17104] Drives in winecfg can not be set correctly for paths containing non-latin (probably multibyte) characters. [utf-8]

2009-02-14 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Austin English" wrote: > Perhaps we should wait for bugs to be closed by AJ in the next > release, even if they were fixed in a previous release? That way, they > should up in the release notes. > > Dan brought it up on another bug, and I agree...but figured it should > be brought up here. > >

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/15 Dan Kegel : > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Ben Klein wrote: >> You obviously don't understand how Wine works. It's not in win32, nor >> is it in any other API standard Wine has to deal with (such as >> Directx). It won't be shipped with Wine. > > I think that's not quite true. There

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/15 Hin-Tak Leung : > > --- On Sun, 15/2/09, Ben Klein wrote: > >> 2009/2/15 Hin-Tak Leung : >> > I have no idea why suddenly at wine 1.1.15 it requires >> the >> > x86_64-redhat-linux-{as,ld,nm} form of the binutils >> tools. It seems to treat x86_64 suddenly as a >> cross-compiling environ

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Martin Hinner
VItaliy, On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Depending on what you need to do it might be a good thing or might be a > complete no-go. Remember that Wine has an additional layer on top of system. > If you bypass it, you can potentially create lots and lots of problems. I u

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Ben Klein wrote: > You obviously don't understand how Wine works. It's not in win32, nor > is it in any other API standard Wine has to deal with (such as > Directx). It won't be shipped with Wine. I think that's not quite true. There are a couple supported wine e

Re: Updated cebit presentation. Looking for ideas...

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Austin English wrote: > Perhaps a shot of wine running firefox, with, e.g., > http://thismachine.info, to show it's running on wine. I'll probably do that live. > A before/after of Safari with corefonts might also be good, to show an > example of what winetricks

Re: Closing fixed bugs

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > Agreed meaning for "closed" status was "the fix present in Wine release". Right, agreed. > If bug reporter wasn't fast enough to report bug fixed in the 5 minutes > elapsed between AJ pushing new release tag and wholesale closing of all

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > What happened with 'wine start /unix %f'? Doesn't it work for you? It turns out that having cxchromium installed does interesting things to nautilus's treatment of .exe files. I think uninstalling cxchromium made things work better. For

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Martin Hinner wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Detlef Riekenberg wrote: >> - It's already present in Wine: >> libwine.dll has exports for wine_dlopen/wine_dlclose/wine_dlsym >> please read: libs/wine/loader.c > > I saw it, but I don't understand how is it exported to the "Win32 > worl

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Martin Hinner wrote: > Hello, > > Purpose of this Wine DLL is to allow Windows applications to use > directly Unix library functions. This is useful for example for > applications which talk to specific drivers and it's not > efficient/possible to create system native DLL for such driver or >

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Dan Kegel wrote: > Ran into this again today. I usually launch everything > from the commandline, but in preparation for my cebit > talk, I started trying to use the GUI and just double- > click on apps in Nautilus. (This is Ubuntu 8.10.) > Works fine until I try it with the setup.exe in the > di

Re: Closing fixed bugs

2009-02-14 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Dan Kegel wrote: > A few months ago, Alexandre started including lists of fixed > bugs in his release announcements. > See e.g. http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.15, which says > > Bugs fixed in 1.1.15: >5694 Lionhead Black & White 2 demo crashes >7014 Unhandled page fault when exiting

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/15 Hin-Tak Leung : > I have no idea why suddenly at wine 1.1.15 it requires the > x86_64-redhat-linux-{as,ld,nm} form of the binutils tools. It seems to treat > x86_64 suddenly as a cross-compiling environment. Are you sure nothing in the build environment just happened to change in the la

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/15 Dan Kegel : > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ben Klein wrote: >> Probably. It's worth trying out, but I have an idea to work around it: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> DIR=`dirname "$1"` >> DIR=`cd "$DIR"; pwd` >> pushd "$DIR" >> wine "$@" & >> popd >> fg > > I don't think that'll help, offhand. W

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/15 Martin Hinner : > If wine-team decides not to include this (or similar .dll) in the Wine > package, we'll just redistribute it with the application, but I think > there is need for such library. You repeat yourself in another post: 2009/2/15 Martin Hinner : > I am not pushing on WINEGAT

Re: Updated cebit presentation. Looking for ideas...

2009-02-14 Thread Austin English
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > I've been slowly finishing my cebit presentation. The current draft is at > http://kegel.com/cebit/ > > It now talks briefly about winetricks, > and uses firefox and safari as examples > of installing and running platinum and bronze > apps. Pe

Updated cebit presentation. Looking for ideas...

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
I've been slowly finishing my cebit presentation. The current draft is at http://kegel.com/cebit/ It now talks briefly about winetricks, and uses firefox and safari as examples of installing and running platinum and bronze apps. It also talks more about support, since a windows admin I showed

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Martin Hinner
Ben, On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/2/14 Martin Hinner : > Wine is (or has been) working on a driver system to handle native > Windows USB device drivers via libusb, for things like printers and > scanners where there are no Linux-native drivers. This is a better > solut

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Martin Hinner
Dan, On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Dan Kegel wrote: > I'd been suggesting to ISVs that they create a single > winelib dll and conditionally load that if present, > but winegate.dll might be an appealing alternative. I think wine needs some universal library so as there is not 20 other ISV-spe

Closing fixed bugs

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
A few months ago, Alexandre started including lists of fixed bugs in his release announcements. See e.g. http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.15, which says Bugs fixed in 1.1.15: 5694 Lionhead Black & White 2 demo crashes 7014 Unhandled page fault when exiting Commandos - BEL 7297 MIDI

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Martin Hinner
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Detlef Riekenberg wrote: > On Sa, 2009-02-14 at 05:39 +0100, Martin Hinner wrote: > Hi Martin. > Thanks for your interest in Wine. > I read your Mail, and my first impresion was: not needed > > After downloading winegate.tar.gz and reading the source: > winegate i

Re: [Bug 17104] Drives in winecfg can not be set correctly for paths containing non-latin (probably multibyte) characters. [utf-8]

2009-02-14 Thread Austin English
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM, wrote: > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17104 > > > Vitaliy Margolen changed: > > What|Removed |Added > > Status|RESOLVED

re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Detlef Riekenberg
On Fr, 2009-02-13 at 22:44 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > Very interesting. ... but not needed > I'd been suggesting to ISVs that they create a single > winelib dll and conditionally load that if present, > but winegate.dll might be an appealing alternative. Use wine_dlopen/wine_dlclose/wine_dlsym fr

Re: WINEGATE.DLL: Wine gateway to native Unix libraries

2009-02-14 Thread Detlef Riekenberg
On Sa, 2009-02-14 at 05:39 +0100, Martin Hinner wrote: > Hello, > > I have created a small library to allow Win32 applications running > under Wine to load native Unix shared libraries (.so). First (one-hour > hack) version is available at > http://martin.hinner.info/tmp/winegate.tar.gz ; Please

Re: Status of USB driver support?

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > Is http://wiki.winehq.org/USB up to date? > > I could have sworn that Alexander Morozov > had submitted a new version of his patch, > but I can't find it. Found it and added to the wiki page. Has anybody tried the Jan 20 patch? - Dan

Status of USB driver support?

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Is http://wiki.winehq.org/USB up to date? I could have sworn that Alexander Morozov had submitted a new version of his patch, but I can't find it.

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ben Klein wrote: > Probably. It's worth trying out, but I have an idea to work around it: > > #!/bin/sh > DIR=`dirname "$1"` > DIR=`cd "$DIR"; pwd` > pushd "$DIR" > wine "$@" & > popd > fg I don't think that'll help, offhand. Maybe the original script will work j

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/15 Dan Kegel : > Ran into this again today. I usually launch everything > from the commandline, but in preparation for my cebit > talk, I started trying to use the GUI and just double- > click on apps in Nautilus. (This is Ubuntu 8.10.) > Works fine until I try it with the setup.exe in the

[patch but not quite ready] NamedPipes messagemode

2009-02-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17195 with only one significant bug - some memory corruption - the semantics are now correct in the namedpipe messagemode patch. i drew a diagram outlining the data structures / design http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=19449 because it's so horrendous

Re: Wine desktop integration: current directory of app launched with doubleclick?

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Ran into this again today. I usually launch everything from the commandline, but in preparation for my cebit talk, I started trying to use the GUI and just double- click on apps in Nautilus. (This is Ubuntu 8.10.) Works fine until I try it with the setup.exe in the directory created by the Adobe

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > I want to cut down on the number of items in the menu as it is - winecfg > will be integrated into a System -> Preferences -> Windows Applications > menu, browse C:\ drive will be in Places, and uninstall would go into > Applications->Add/Re

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
Dan Kegel wrote: > I know, when I wrote Winetricks, I meant it as a developers' > tool only. But... then... people started using it, and > it made sense to provide it as a way to download missing > visual C++ runtimes etc. for average users. > > Quite a few newbies trip over the fact that it > ne

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread James McKenzie
Ben Klein wrote: > Stupid Gmail sent my last mail twice, it seems. > > 2009/2/15 Roderick Colenbrander : > >>> 1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means >>> something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way >>> configure is working. >>> >>> Here's t

Re: mshtml: allow REG_EXPAND_SZ values for GeckoCabDir

2009-02-14 Thread Juan Lang
> No, I used RegGetValue which expands them for me. Ah, right, that explains the other change as well. Thanks :) --Juan

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
> > Now, at some point we should come up with a better menu item name > than Winetricks, but I have no idea how to sum it up properly. > winetricks has a fair bit of name recognition, and requires no > localization, so let's run with that name until we figure out > what it should really be called

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Great! If Scott does the same for Ubuntu, it'll simplify my CeBit presentation. Currently I have to dance around explaining how to get winetricks... if it's right there in the menus, the presentation will flow better. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:23 AM, marco wrote: > A menu item is added for mand

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread marco
A menu item is added for mandriva and dependencies are added. and will be active for the next version 1.1.16 Marco Dan Kegel schreef: > So, for people packaging wine, here's a proposed plan: > > 0. See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks if you're not familiar with > winetricks > > 1. Download h

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread Dan Kegel
So, for people packaging wine, here's a proposed plan: 0. See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks if you're not familiar with winetricks 1. Download http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks (or get it via svn, see http://code.google.com/p/winezeug ) It's a monolithic shell script, so you don't need to

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
Stupid Gmail sent my last mail twice, it seems. 2009/2/15 Roderick Colenbrander : >> 1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means >> something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way >> configure is working. >> >> Here's the build failure I'm getting on

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
> 1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means > something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way > configure is working. > > Here's the build failure I'm getting on amd64, but it fails on all > arches: > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22606029/buildlog_

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/14 Scott Ritchie : > 1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means > something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way > configure is working. Worked for me on my Debian build environments. No changes required ... > Here's the build failure I'm ge

Re: 1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/14 Scott Ritchie : > 1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means > something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way > configure is working. Worked for me on my Debian build environments. No changes required ... > Here's the build failure I'm ge

1.1.15 failing to build -- what changed?

2009-02-14 Thread Scott Ritchie
1.1.15 fails to build using an identical layout to 1.1.14, which means something has changed with either the build dependencies or the way configure is working. Here's the build failure I'm getting on amd64, but it fails on all arches: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22606029/buildlog_ubuntu-intrepi

Re: GSoC 2009 coming up

2009-02-14 Thread nn
Would it also be possible for someone to revisit the past GSOC's ( http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode/PreviousProjects ) and state what happened with each projects contributions in relation to being added to Wine, etc.. - Nat --- On Sat, 14/2/09, Kai Blin wrote: > From: Kai Blin > Subject: GS

Re: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

2009-02-14 Thread nn
How about help in a .chm file :) --- On Sat, 14/2/09, Dan Kegel wrote: > From: Dan Kegel > Subject: Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu > To: "wine-devel@winehq.org" > Received: Saturday, 14 February, 2009, 4:42 PM > I know, when I wrote Winetricks, I meant it as a > developers' > tool on

GSoC 2009 coming up

2009-02-14 Thread Kai Blin
Hi folks, the organization application period for GSoC 2009 is starting on March 9th, so it's time to get our http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode wiki page in shape again. Detlef Riekenberg and Roderick Colenbrander made a good start, so if the rest of you could check and make sure that all the

Re: Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

2009-02-14 Thread Kai Blin
On Friday 13 February 2009 18:54:23 Reece Dunn wrote: > The real benefit in terms of speed for Wine would be not to use msvc, > but to hand-optimise specific algorithms to take advantage of faster > assembly instructions. This would likely be for the cryptographic > algorithms (SHA1, MD5, etc), I