Changelog: * wwn/wn20031010_191.xml Small spelling fixes and tweaks. -- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
Index: wwn/wn20031010_191.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/lostwages/wwn/wn20031010_191.xml,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 wn20031010_191.xml --- wwn/wn20031010_191.xml 11 Oct 2003 01:57:50 -0000 1.1 +++ wwn/wn20031010_191.xml 11 Oct 2003 10:53:11 -0000 @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ with uxtheme.dll was the way to go. I agreed, but didn't have winxp to play with, so I kept tinkering on this project with the intent of learning a bit more about how wine works (which meant learning a lot -about how GDI and X works, though I didn't realise that I'd need to know +about how GDI and X work, though I didn't realise that I'd need to know that stuff when I started on the project). I actually managed to get some results which were starting to look promising (though there's no way I'd submit that code as a patch). Screenshots here (the checkbox @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ <p>Kevin then detailed an area he was looking into:</p> <quote who="Kevin Koltzau"><p> -I'm currently working on implementing support for .msstyles themes (of which +I'm currently working on implementing support for .msstyles themes (which are used by XP) primarily because the format follows the API pretty closely and will be easier to test my implementation against an XP box. </p><p> @@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ several days later wondering how to set up configuration options. At that point Steven Edwards brought up a topic on a similar tangent, <quote who="Steven Edwards"> -Is there a way we can merge the winelook option in to the themeing +Is there a way we can merge the winelook option in to the theming support? The work I have been doing to port comdlg32 is kind of stalled -because of tweak_winelook being incompleate in this dll. It would be +because of tweak_winelook being incomplete in this dll. It would be nice if we could plan on moving all of this stuff together post 1.0 </quote></p> @@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ how Windows' theming worked:</p> <quote who="Kevin Koltzau"><p> I'm not very familiar with how the winelook is handled in code, what does it -do exactly? if it simply affects system metrics & colors that would be easily -merged with themes, if its more then that (like for example different common +do exactly? If it simply affects system metrics & colors that would be easily +merged with themes, if its more than that (like for example different common dialogs) it may be more difficult </p><p> Full blown theming in windows uses a combination of .theme files and .msstyles @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ </p><p> The two theme formats are coupled very loosely, they can be used together (primarily to enable defining icons & cursors with a graphical theme) or -seperate. When used together, any metrics & colors defined in the msstyles +separate. When used together, any metrics & colors defined in the msstyles override those defined in the .theme </p><p> Alexandre has requested I use the registry keys that windows uses to define @@ -345,14 +345,14 @@ managers. That's good.Thanks. </p><p> But as I see it, this task is REALLY easy. -Once we resolve the Windows shorcut files,figuring out +Once we resolve the Windows shortcut files, figuring out how to implement the resolved menu entries for respective Desktop environments is dependent on the Desktop environment themselves, and people wanting to implement the 'Start Menu' on that environment. -Windows maintains it's 'Start Menu' under +Windows maintains its 'Start Menu' under '%ROOTDIR%\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Start Menu' -(yeah I am talking >=NT,Win2k. For 9x, it will be +(yeah I am talking >=NT, Win2k. For 9x, it will be probably 'C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu'), and this folder contains LOADS of shortcut (.lnk) files. So if we can just recurse through this folder and read @@ -369,14 +369,14 @@ Wine-20030618 - the VERY version from which IPersistFile::Load() (the VERY function used to resolve windows shortcuts) got broken, so I could not -see 'winemenubuilder' in practise! +see 'winemenubuilder' in practice! (Mike, if you are reading this, could you tell me on what Wine ver you originally developed it, and does 'winemenubuilder' work now ? Thanks) </p><p> You yourself may try out 'winemenubuilder', and if it works let me know. I will know that I was at fault all -along,and that would be good news for me ! +along, and that would be good news for me ! </p><p> Now, there arises the problem. Microsoft really does not tell us what's the data structure of .lnk files, @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ <p>Robert jumped in and described some work he's done:</p> <quote who="Robert van Herk"><p> ->From discussions with others from this list, I understand that you +From discussions with others from this list, I understand that you should not just want to list the entries in the start menu folder, but also other things (control panel, etc). </p><p> @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Pipes won't probably be a good idea, because you want bidirectional communication. </p><p> -Anyhow, the first client is set up using QT. I am not shure whether this +Anyhow, the first client is set up using QT. I am not sure whether this is general enough, so please tell me if this is not wise to do, for example if it won't be compatible with Gnome. If everything is QT compatible, only the very frontend of the client will have to be @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ <p>In a similar vein, Dimi Paun posted a patch to move around some documentation. Part of it included the following note, <quote who="Dimitrie Paun">Nearly complete informations about the binary formats -of .lnk files avaiable at +of .lnk files available at <a href="http://www.wotsit.org";>http://www.wotsit.org</a></quote></p> </section> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ > <topic>Utilities</topic> <p>From time to time I mention ReactOS in passing -(sometimes refered to as simply ROS). If you're not familiar with +(sometimes referred to as simply ROS). If you're not familiar with the project you may want to check out the <a href="http://www.reactos.com";> ReactOS website</a>. Their Win32 subsystem relies on Wine and a lot of Wine portability and janitorial work has come out of
