Comments on: A brief summary of Wineconf 2009

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:29:06 +0000

Wikimedia uses a press address which goes to OTRS, a ticketing system. This is terrible, but is less worse than all other ticketing systems. It’s probably a bit heavyweight for Wine …

Suggestion: make press@wikimedia.org a mailing list with press handlers on it, which anyone can post to but only press handlers can join. People can grab an incoming email by answering to the list “I’ve got this one” and ccing their answer. The main problem then is dealing with buckets of spam.

By: Rubén Romero

Rubén Romero — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:04:01 +0000

Hi Scott,

I am an Ubuntu member and Wine funboy (I just cam’t live without aps like spotify or proper management of those apps such as wine-doors.)

How long time would this take you think? Would it basically be answering questions from the press about wine (could be done in a wiki by *all* press contacts) and/or making press releases?

I always have some time and you could add me to your list of possible press contacts for the wine project. over the years I have followed the project (since ‘98) and it has saved my life a couple of times. So it’s due time for me to give back something.

By: jackflap

jackflap — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:17:11 +0000

+1 to Steve Dodier’s suggestion above.

It’s actually a real usability improvement to be able to see that the app is loading, and that the icon you’ve just clicked hasn’t done nothing whatsoever.

By: Aigars Mahinovs

Aigars Mahinovs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:02:12 +0000

P.S. Looking forward to 64bit capability a LOT. Now that new computers come with 4+Gb of RAM as standard, using that memory in Wine apps becomes a very important issue. (Especially if there are weird bugs/misfeatures that crash applications as soon as their RAM allocation gets over 3 Gb)

By: Aigars Mahinovs

Aigars Mahinovs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:00:07 +0000

I just looked and found that OpenAL does support PulseAudio and it also supports audio capture, so it does look like a good choice, especially if it will make Wine code simpler and reduce the bike-shedding about it.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:00:27 +0000

Um… -does- OpenAL support PulseAudio?

(alsa plugin in pa is not support. It just broke horribly on me in karmic and I’m still trying to find a solution. All apps that don’t support pa have really, really fcked sound now).

By: Kazade

Kazade — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:35:42 +0000

Hi Scott, thanks for the write up

As I said, I can help you with the Redmine stuff. Also (re bug 10841) I dunno if you have seen this thread I started on xorg-devel: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-May/000953.html also here’s another message from another thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg@lists.freedesktop.org/msg09161.html

By: Steve Dodier

Steve Dodier — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:16:20 +0000

Hi there and thanks for that summary of WineConf,

For the message box, why do you not use the application starting capability provided by WMs? ie. it’ll show the app’s name in the taskbar when it’s loading so users know it’s loading.
http://filebin.ca/ebtfwb

I forgot how this is done, but it’s a rather simple DBus API as far as I recall. And it’s standard and already in use, so there will be no need to change anything on DE-side.

Something else, did you actually manage to get this Wine executables icon thing done yet?