On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:02 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Misha Koshelev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Btw the reason for the /dde parameter is simply so that if the user runs > > winebrowser from the command line he/she does not have to wait for the 5 > > second timeout before they get a usage message. > > > > On windows there is no such parameter passed to iexplore (although > > -nohome is passed so it doesn't open a homepage) as iexplore will > > actually open a window that will then sit and wait for the DDE server > > request. Since winebrowser does no such thing, and will exit once it > > starts the appropriate unix browser, we have to have a timeout, but if > > we pass a special command line parameter we will know only to wait for a > > dde request if it is passed, so a commandline user can see his usage > > message right away. > > If you need a special command line parameter it should be named differently > then. The behaviour should conform to what Windows does in that case. Just > think of it as the winebrowser has been executed under Windows with its > default registry setup, but winebrowser being a replacement for iexplore. >
Thanks for the advice, submitted new patches. Btw, with the new patches this seems to start now too and not crash: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7953 Misha
