Re: App Database Ratings

2009-01-03 Thread M.Kiesel
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Keith Muir wrote: > Recently read the thread on the poor quality of the ratings but changing > the wording isn't going to have much of an effect. A properly structured > questionnaire that then suggests a rating will. Something like a simple rule-based system (platinum = no_s

Regression: Sound broken in PoP series

2008-12-23 Thread M.Kiesel
Hi! The following commit breaks sound in (at least) Prince of Persia SoT and PoP TWW. Reece, let me know how I can help with that. commit ce06de420874b9983324508f8257a580fee341ca Author: Reece Dunn Date: Mon Dec 22 13:33:43 2008 + dsound: Correct the dsound fraglen calculations. Reg

Re: winecfg: Disable nonfunctional advanced drive settings

2008-12-22 Thread M.Kiesel
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote: >> In the winecfg drive tab, advanced drive settings (setting label and serial) >> seem to be broken currently due to other Wine bugs (see drive.c >> apply_drive_changes comments). Disable these settings for now since this >> only confuses users. [...] >

Re: AppDB rating definitions, was: Re: Canonical and wine

2008-12-16 Thread M.Kiesel
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote: >> What about clarifying the wording on >> http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?sTopic=maintainer_ratings >> ? >> My suggestion for "Platinum": >> "Application installs and runs flawlessly completely/at highest settings >> 'out of the box'. No changes required i

AppDB rating definitions, was: Re: Canonical and wine

2008-12-15 Thread M.Kiesel
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote: If I had a nickel for every times I've seen platinum and gold ratings for apps that had dozens of native dlls or complicated scripts to work around wine bugs, I'd be a much richer man. What about clarifying the wording on http://appdb.winehq.org/help