Hi Austin, 2008/3/14, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Maarten Lankhorst > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 2008/3/13, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > Christopher Harvey wrote: > > > > I've had a few ideas that I thought of on my own, but now I'm > starting > > > > to see they perhaps aren't as useful as the ideas thought of by > current > > > > developers, but I'll float it out there one last time. I thought it > > > > would be cool to create a wine GUI overlay for games, exactly like > > > > nvPerfHUD. The thing about doing it in wine that makes it better than > > > > nvPerHUD is the fact the to use nvPerfHUD the apps have to give > > > > permission for nvPerHUD to run on them. A wine version would > actually be > > > > able to force every single 3d app, opengl or directX to output > nvPerfHUD > > > > like output. Anyway, just a thought. Would I be able to apply for > both > > > > of these projects and pick one last minute? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris. > > > > > > > > > > > > > After talking about the concept a bit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, I > > > really don't like the idea of a "Wine GUI" just for running Wine > > > applications. From the user's persepctive, installers for Wine > > > applications shouldn't be substantially different from any old Linux > > > installer - they just click on them, it adds something to their > > > applications menu, and from then on they can run it from there. > > > > > > Most of the futzing with applications, like messing around with native > > > dlls in winecfg, shouldn't have to be done at all. The same goes with > > > editing the registry. > > > > > > Configuration we'll never be able to eliminate completely, like > > > selecting the windows version, should ultimately be done through an > > > intuitive place and not some central "Wine configuration" program. For > > > instance, I should be able to right click a Windows application, select > > > properties, and then change the Windows version from there. > > > > > > So, yes, I agree. Winecfg is ugly and inadequate for the kind of > > > configuration our users are doing now. But before we put too much > > > effort into sprucing up Winecfg, let's instead talk about how feasible > > > it is to make it unneeded in the first place. > > > > I totally agree that a wine gui is not what we want. ui's are counter > > productive. > > I also found that I need winecfg less and less, I now run winecfg only > > to set the windows version to vista. Maybe we should make this version > > the default now? More and more applications don't want to run with > > windows version set to 2000, and it should just work. > > > > Cheers, > > Maarten. > > > > > > > > > There was a discussion a while back about setting the default version > to XP. Vista may be a bad default, considering how badly it's been > running, I wouldn't be surprised if some apps start including their > own workarounds for Vista. It's a good idea to set to vista, I think we'll support it. Some games for example won't run on xp any more.
I only know apps that will run if windows version is set to vista. I don't know any that fail if the version is set to that specifically. Cheers, Maarten.
