Re: Call for DirectPlay captures

2006-11-26 Thread n0dalus
indows machine, not from Wine. n0dalus.

Re: Half-Life 2 Episode 1

2006-10-22 Thread n0dalus
. Was in my spambox too (though I did notice it because of the Wine-Dev label). n0dalus.

Re: WineD3D State management - going live(TM)

2006-10-21 Thread n0dalus
constantly upgrading their hardware because of attitudes like this is not sustainable -- a far better future would be where a standard computer is cheaper, needs less power, produces less noise and heat, and just does its job. n0dalus.

Re: u_int32_t

2006-10-14 Thread n0dalus
ill work with pre-C99 compilers whereas C99 code features wouldn't. Any official word on this? n0dalus.

Re: Tips for vim users

2006-09-26 Thread n0dalus
on the Wiki too. Feel free to make any changes there if you think of other things. n0dalus.

Re: Tips for vim users

2006-09-26 Thread n0dalus
On 9/26/06, Troy Rollo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 25 September 2006 19:47, n0dalus wrote: > At the bottom of my ~/.vimrc (create it if it doesn't exist): > if !exists("loaded_vimrc_autocmd") > let loaded_vimrc_autocmd=1 > autocmd BufNewFile,B

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread n0dalus
emacs interface. Alexandre could continue with his current approach and the system would know whether or not a patch has been accepted by watching the wine-cvs list. n0dalus.

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread n0dalus
tember/051052.html n0dalus.

Tips for vim users

2006-09-25 Thread n0dalus
arrays: http://wiki.winehq.org/Character_arrays_in_Vim If any other vim users have tips that help out with wine coding, I'd love to hear them! Maybe we can make a page on the wiki for them. n0dalus.

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-22 Thread n0dalus
een accepted If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to write a little mockup in php or something. n0dalus.

Re: [PATCH] PATCH: kernel 2.6 in README.de

2006-09-13 Thread n0dalus
folder). It probably means that whatever program you are using to send these emails is broken slightly. I hope you are able to work it out, n0dalus.

Re: DirectX can't change Screen depth

2006-08-07 Thread n0dalus
this in lots of games but the colours are always ok -- maybe it is specific to that game? n0dalus.

Re: Drive mapping of Z:

2006-07-24 Thread n0dalus
lications it runs from making those syscalls while still being able to make them itself? n0dalus.

Re: Drive mapping of Z:

2006-07-24 Thread n0dalus
to disable this as well? n0dalus.

Re: 0.9.17 and other issues

2006-07-11 Thread n0dalus
usinesses registering your interest in having their applications run in wine or Linux. Help do quality assurance; find and report bugs for these applications, and write tests for wine to run. There are many things you can do to help. The other developers are already helping with what they do best. n0dalus.

Re: SecuRom investigation

2006-06-25 Thread n0dalus
h copy protections without any source code is to make all drives visible to wine applications appear to be SCSI. The main copy protections don't "work" on SCSI drives so the games are allowed to run unchecked. I'm not sure how hard this would be to setup in wine at the moment though. n0dalus.

Re: Broken FC5 packages - stay clear.

2006-06-13 Thread n0dalus
git is a meta package which requires all subpackages making it very easy and intuitive to get it. So having something like wine being the meta package and the actual wine subpackage being renamed to wine-core would give the user friendliness and choice for those who need it. Sounds like a good idea. n0dalus.

Re: Broken FC5 packages - stay clear.

2006-06-13 Thread n0dalus
on each other in a way that means you just choose what you want and the package manager will get what you need. Some time in the future (or already) the package manager may make the distinction between required packages, suggested packages and enhancement packages, making it easier for users like yourself to work out what they want. n0dalus.

Re: Broken FC5 packages - stay clear.

2006-06-13 Thread n0dalus
n for people to get confused over which of all the packages they should install. Unless they know already that they need something non-standard, anything not required by the base package is probably something they won't need. n0dalus.

Re: How are we doing?

2006-06-03 Thread n0dalus
to the bug #. I think it's good to have seperate documentation to msdn. MSDN has a lot of inaccurate information and regularly discards information about older functions. What better place to put this seperate information, provided it is not too wordy, than in the source code? n0dalus.

Re: World of Warcraft (WoW) patch/more address space layout stuff

2006-05-30 Thread n0dalus
d be (should be!) pre-built versions of Wine that run for all users customized for WoW specifically. Given the amount of users who use wine to run WoW, would it be possible to have the patch included with a compile-time option? Would it even be possible to make the patch a runtime feature? n0dalus.

Re: World of Warcraft (WoW) patch/more address space layout stuff

2006-05-01 Thread n0dalus
omized prelinking and exec-shield. On FC5 it took me some time to get the patched version to run and used: setarch i386 -L wine WoW.exe -opengl This apparently enables support for a legacy address layout. Does anyone know how this would allow it to run? Just curious, n0dalus.

Re: RFC: sfd2ttf

2006-04-28 Thread n0dalus
properly for me unfortunately. I am opening > them in gnome-font-viewer; there is a screenshot attached. Courier.sfd is a bitmap font, perhaps that's the problem. Try marlett.sfd, it's an outline font. Ok, that generated a font. I assume it's supposed to be full of strange symbols (arrows, boxes, etc)? n0dalus.

Re: RFC: sfd2ttf

2006-04-28 Thread n0dalus
a lot bigger (factor 2-5 or so) and i believe it's not needed (right?). The fonts aren't generated properly for me unfortunately. I am opening them in gnome-font-viewer; there is a screenshot attached. n0dalus. courier.png Description: PNG image

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-23 Thread n0dalus
27;s servers, making > another point of contact (and also making live help more readily > accessible to those unfamiliar with irc)... There's no reason we can't set up a java irc client to connect to freenode. n0dalus.

Re: [Wine] Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-23 Thread n0dalus
mins. In a mailing list people tend to treat each other more as peers. - Graphical avatars and signatures - "See who else is online" features Without those things, such as if you implemented a simple web interface ontop of the mailing list, I don't think there would be as many cliques. n0dalus.

Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-23 Thread n0dalus
> Any holes or oversights in that plan? Let's not make this so complex. Keep things as seperate as possible, but don't go out of our way to make it suit every possible purpose. If we make a complete list of things we want to implement before we start, the development should be easy and nothing will need bolting on after. n0dalus.

Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread n0dalus
y) Since a huge number of the features usually provided by forums are not needed, this is probably an easier task than it might seem. n0dalus.

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread n0dalus
language to use for every conceivable project. Wine is supposed to be a way to run Win32 programs on UNIX, and not every unix flavour comes with GTK and python. I think people would say Wine has enough run-time dependencies, and there's no strong reason why another one can't be avoided here. My two cents, n0dalus.

Re: tasklet - sfd2ttf - eliminate dependency on FontForge (for anybody who's interested)

2006-04-13 Thread n0dalus
table for inclusion into Wine. > So, I guess the easiest way to do this is to run the program through gcov and work out which code gets used and what doesn't in the process of converting the fonts. n0dalus.

Re: tasklet - sfd2ttf - eliminate dependency on FontForge (for anybody who's interested)

2006-04-13 Thread n0dalus
o our sfd files and we have to work around it, etc, etc. > What Mike's task boils down to is making a simple font generation tool. > Fontforge has about 800 bizillion features and we need two: parsing sfd > files and generating a TTF from them. > Maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't we just distribute the ttf files directly? n0dalus.

AppDB email address obfuscation

2006-04-03 Thread n0dalus
se be Bcc? Just curious, n0dalus.

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

2006-04-02 Thread n0dalus
On 4/3/06, Joao Inacio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use GMail, and i can filter by subject or by "to:" header... but not > "cc:"... > > some emails get filtered, and some don't so i need to keep sorting them. > In my gmail I am only filtering by to. I think to works for cc as well. The problem

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

2006-04-02 Thread n0dalus
is for more info: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > And finally, why does it take half a day for a post I've made to ping > back to my email inbox? No idea. If you're subscribed there should be only a minimal delay. I don't see when my mails area returned to me, so it could be a global thing. n0dalus.

Re: disallow networking flag

2006-03-20 Thread n0dalus
eject-with imcp-net-unreachable or something like that (I haven't tested it), it will block the 'nonet' user and any applications started as it from sending network packets. HTH, n0dalus.

Re: Idea for reducing the number of duplicate bugs

2006-02-23 Thread n0dalus
e filed in the database. Even if there's a workaround in the AppDB that says how to get a program working, it doesn't mean that the underlying issue shouldn't be fixed. I also think that having any kind of popup in the way will just annoy people, and most people will ignore it anyway n0dalus.

Re: Dogfood Challenge, week 2

2006-02-09 Thread n0dalus
anyway. Since image rendering is one of the parts of wine's code I am familiar with, I was planning to have a look. n0dalus.

Re: Dogfood Challenge, week 2

2006-02-09 Thread n0dalus
On 2/10/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/8/06, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Firefox is quite usable; I read gmail in it routinely. > > OK, filed two more bugs. Can you please attach screenshots of these problems? Thanks, n0dalus.

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-30 Thread n0dalus
compiling and stuff. The problem is working out what user to run as. Alternatively, we could just split wineinstall into winecompile and wineinstall. n0dalus.

Re: sudo vs su in wineinstall

2006-01-29 Thread n0dalus
ver is appropriate for the distribution/setup) and it would run a seperate process as a non-root user to perform the compiling, etc, and bits that need root would be run by the wineinstall script directly. n0dalus.

Re: Startup time of OOo2, Firefox 1.5. Some surprises.

2006-01-29 Thread n0dalus
g. Keep in mind that the FC5t2 kernels and libraries currently have some debugging stuff enabled that might have a big effect in these tests. You should think about posting these results to the fedora-devel or fedora-test list. n0dalus.

Re: Please read: Wine(HQ) needs a reorganization (AppDB, Bugzilla, etc.)

2006-01-10 Thread n0dalus
than a well-configured MySQL server when dealing with large record sets, complex table structures and blob data. Maybe the newer versions of SQLite have improved on this though. n0dalus.

Re: Please read: Wine(HQ) needs a reorganization (AppDB, Bugzilla, etc.)

2006-01-10 Thread n0dalus
> Trac looks interesting, but the demo there seems a bit messy. Unfortunately it uses SQLite, which may not be able to effectively handle the huge needs of wine's bug tracking. It says they will try implement support for other sql servers in later versions, but currently it doesn't. n0dalus.

Re: Please read: Wine(HQ) needs a reorganization (AppDB, Bugzilla, etc.)

2006-01-09 Thread n0dalus
elopers. So it's "Help > us, help you". > > What's your opinion about this? In my eyes, it would greatly improve > the user input/feedback and would even make Wine more popular. > Other than those things, most of the ideas here I agree with to some extent. Just my $0.015, n0dalus.

Re: What would most aid WINE development?

2005-11-20 Thread n0dalus
re if it's free, but a company trying to sell it would have trouble getting enough customers to fund itself. Just my two cents... n0dalus.

[user] static.c: Fix vertical text alignment (Test program)

2005-11-17 Thread n0dalus
ed is the aligntest program and source code (in tarball), and several screenshots from Windows and using wine on Linux for comparison (one screenshot has been edited to show which styles are different on the current version of wine when compared with Windows). n0dalus. Note: I don't know why the

Re: [user] static.c: PaintIcon fix background colour

2005-11-09 Thread n0dalus
I wasn't sure about that. Should I fix my patches and resend them to the list? Can you see anything wrong with my other patches? > > Regards > Michael > Thankyou for your help, n0dalus.

Re: [user] static.c: PaintIcon fix background colour

2005-11-09 Thread n0dalus
_ICON, but if you use SS_CENTERIMAGE with it, it paints the background around the icon where there should be no background. I will experiment with transparent icons and improve my patch. Thankyou for the info. n0dalus.

Re: Wine API Documentation

2005-11-09 Thread n0dalus
done a lot of php programming, I might be able to help make such a system. Is there much interest in something like this? n0dalus.