On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:25:24PM +0000, cedric wrote: [snip - regards wine and shortcuts] > When in windows a program can acces them, in wine it should too. Correct me if > i'm wrong, but we're not creating the perfect windows here, but a > bug-compitible one. Pardon? Wine was, in my understanding, a program (originally for linux) to run Windows programs. In Windows, shortcuts are merely data files for the Windows OS's explorer and it's shell dlls to interpret as a sort of soft link to a program. (Except it doesn't always work, if the program doesn't resolve the link, causing it to be only useful to execute things on Windows.) Would it make sence for wine to resolve shortcuts? I agree with you here in part, but I would assume that a hard or soft link, or a shell script, is a better idea -- it is, after all, the Linux equivilant of a Windows shortcut. Still, for linux/windows integration, that is a good point. Mind, short of actually copying the link resolutions to your GUI's internal menu -- that would require wine knowing what kind of window manager you use, and making sure that doesn't change or that the shortcuts are moved if you change window managers. Remind me, are the CD-Rom mounts reported to wine and apps under it as a CD-Rom drive, or as a network/hard drive? That would be one thing to prevent the CD from being recognized. Also, there's standard anti-copying software included on these CDs, if Linux can't decode them, you'd have to find a way to run the Windows version under wine, right? [snip] > I tried to launch it from the Program files, /mnt/cdrom , and the dosdevice, > no difference. (which is good, it shouldn't make any difference) Hmm... you sure you've been talking about the right executables as in the Windows version? *IF* you have a windows install to look at, try looking at the shortcut that actually points to SC - maybe it should have a certain working directory, or certain arguments on it. And then there's also always the issue of DirectX implementations on Wine, another issue in itself. > I have however been able to upgrade it to broodwar. Still refused to run, but > still nice it worked. I guess i'm only a no-cd patch away from sc on linux Probably. Good luck. -Michael P.S. Have you looked at those wine compatability lists for SC? Maybe there are special instructions regarding SC on Wine on Linux. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
