Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/12 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

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: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/12 Gert van den Berg : > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Luke Benstead wrote: >> I can also see what you mean about >> spyware, but other apps retrieve stuff from the web if there is a >> connection (CDDB, and album covers are two examples). >> > Wine transmitting every application I run t

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread John Klehm
Please correct me if I'm wrong but before we go about collecting all this information wouldn't it be better to have some compatibility framework in Wine that could actually make use of it? Otherwise we're collecting a lot of information that is of little immediate use. In other words we'd have so

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Luke Benstead
2009/2/11 Matt 'Murph' Finnicum : > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM, wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:03:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie >> wrote: Automatic submission of test data could be a very handy tool. >>> This would be great, but as previously discussed, who woul

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Matt 'Murph' Finnicum
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM, wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:03:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie > wrote: >>> >>>Automatic submission of test data could be a very handy tool. >>> >> This would be great, but as previously discussed, who would maintain this >> information >> and verify

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread alex
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:03:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie wrote: >> >>Automatic submission of test data could be a very handy tool. >> > This would be great, but as previously discussed, who would maintain this > information > and verify it is correct and proper? Although some features wou

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread James Mckenzie
-Original Message- >From: a...@centroidcafe.com >Sent: Feb 11, 2009 10:59 AM >To: wine-devel@winehq.org >Subject: Re: An idea for the appdb > >Sorry .. forgot to reply all. > >Automatic submission of test data could be a very handy tool. Scenario: >User A trie

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Austin English
This was discussed a couple months ago, nearly to death. It's a cool idea, sure, but a ton of work to do, and not really worth the effort. The data is quickly outdated with new wine versions. Some users may consider it spyware, developers would find it annoying, and overall, it would be a big mess.

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread alex
Sorry .. forgot to reply all. On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:08:47 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Luke Benstead wrote: >> I can also see what you mean about >> spyware, but other apps retrieve stuff from the web if there is a >> connection (CDDB, and album covers are t

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Tim Schwartz
.." > > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:57:48 +1100 > From: Ben Klein > Subject: Re: An idea for the appdb > To: Luke Benstead > Cc: Wine Devel > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 2009/2/11 Luke Benstead : >

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Gert van den Berg
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Luke Benstead wrote: > I can also see what you mean about > spyware, but other apps retrieve stuff from the web if there is a > connection (CDDB, and album covers are two examples). > Wine transmitting every application I run to someone else would be rather worryin

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/11 Luke Benstead : > 2009/2/11 Ben Klein : >> 2009/2/11 Luke Benstead : >>> My idea is that the appdb should allow for people to associate a list >>> of checksums with an application version. For example, WoW might have >>> the checksum for the setup program and the game's executable, >>> as

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Luke Benstead
2009/2/11 Ben Klein : > 2009/2/11 Luke Benstead : >> Hi all, >> >> I was thinking earlier it would be quite nice if when I double clicked >> a Windows app in GNOME it would display a nice dialog saying something >> like "This Windows application may not run correctly as it is >> currently rated Sil

Re: An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/11 Luke Benstead : > Hi all, > > I was thinking earlier it would be quite nice if when I double clicked > a Windows app in GNOME it would display a nice dialog saying something > like "This Windows application may not run correctly as it is > currently rated Silver. Please report any bugs to

An idea for the appdb

2009-02-11 Thread Luke Benstead
Hi all, I was thinking earlier it would be quite nice if when I double clicked a Windows app in GNOME it would display a nice dialog saying something like "This Windows application may not run correctly as it is currently rated Silver. Please report any bugs to the Wine project. Continue | Cancel"