Re: FW: Re: please reduce the four registrations on the single winehq.org site.

2009-07-20 Thread Sparr
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Steven Edwards wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: >> I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but there may be some merit in having >> one of the accounts function as an OpenID Provider and then have the >> others be able to link to it (but sti

Re: NTFS filesystem features -> WONTFIX?

2009-04-06 Thread Sparr
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > ... since there are apps that expect NTFS. Just for the record, what do those apps do if you install them in Windows on a non-NTFS drive?

Re: AppDB entries are being delete without contacting maintainer by Rozanne

2009-03-06 Thread Sparr
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ben Klein wrote: > "Rating: Garbage > What works: Installer > What doesn't work: Starting the game > What wasn't tested: N/A > Additional comments: This works in Crossover Games, but not in Wine" > ^^ I don't have a problem with this. (If it mentioned Cedega/WineX

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Sparr
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/2/12 Gert van den Berg : >> It should rather be opt-in. Such as "Wine has detected that it is the >> first time you run this application, do you want to check AppDb for >> more information (Yes/No/Ask again/Never ask for any application)" >

Re: Fixing AppDB once and for all

2009-02-03 Thread Sparr
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Louis Lenders wrote: > Zachary Goldberg bluesata.com> writes: > I think this will be a very difficult if not impossible task to accomplish. > If we talk about test results, it's the app maintainer that is responsible > for the correctness of the ratings and test re

Re: AppDB: Rating / Patching

2009-01-07 Thread Sparr
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Zachary Goldberg wrote: > 2009/1/7 Sparr : >> Re-compiling wine with patches is an extremely farfetched idea when no >> one outside Cedega has ever tackled the far simpler tasks involved >> with making a wine launcher. > This statemen

Re: AppDB: Rating / Patching

2009-01-07 Thread Sparr
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Chris Howe wrote: > argument for some kind of WineTricks-like Wine application launcher > that would exist as a separate project to Wine, but would apply patches, Re-compiling wine with patches is an extremely farfetched idea when no one outside Cedega has ever tac

Re: AppDB: Rating / Patching

2009-01-05 Thread Sparr
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Jeff Zaroyko wrote: > 2009/1/6 Björn Krombholz : > Gold means [...] you've modified Wine to make it work, ie > there is a work around that makes the application work flawlessly. > There's no reason to exclude modifying Wine, you are empowered to > change it as you s

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

2008-12-15 Thread Sparr
I think that Highest Settings is unfair, there are issues with many games in Windows with settings maxed (Check Oblivion forums, every problem we have in wine is also had by people in native windows). Default settings is a far more appropriate measuring stick. I also think there needs to be a revi

Re: New steam survey statistics?

2008-08-25 Thread Sparr
I considered not submitting the survey because it misdetected my CPU as 1GHz (it's an Athlon 64 3400ishiforgotexactly). On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, it would not surprise me if Wine users are much less likely to > follow the survey for whatever

Re: Ubuntu Popularity Contest - 37% Wine install base, 10% who use, and 7% who use regularly

2008-05-30 Thread Clarence &quot;Sparr" Risher
This statistic also neglects people who install wine from source without building a package, and I know that is a non-trivial number of people. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doing some division, this means that a rather high 37% of Ubuntu users > have