windows live compatibility

lain · Post by **lain** » Mon May 23, 2011 5:45 am

hi,
i was thinking ... wine have a lot of update !! a lot of new bug corrected ! but why wine team doesn't work to the windows live compatibility ?
'cause Amsn is not really good with the new msnProtocole
so the best way to have perfectely msn on linux is to have msn 2009 (or 2011 but i prefer the 2009 version) on wine !!

sorry for my poor english

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Mon May 23, 2011 6:35 am

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:45, lain <[email protected]> wrote:

hi,
i was thinking ... wine Â have a lot of update !! a lot of new bug corrected ! but why Â wine team doesn't work to the windows live compatibility ?
'cause Amsn is not really good with Â the new msnProtocole
so the best way Â to have perfectely msn on linux is to have msn 2009 (or 2011 but i prefer the 2009 version) on wine !!

sorry for my poor english

http://www.winehq.org/contributing

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon May 23, 2011 7:28 pm

lain wrote:why wine team doesn't work to the windows live compatibility ?

No one works on that because no one needs it. Use native Linux programs instead. There are number of good multi-protocol IM clients.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue May 24, 2011 11:49 pm

On 5/24/11 7:34 PM, PECO wrote:

That is not a good answer man!!!

However, that IS the answer you are going to get here. Wine puts
programs like Windows Live on the 'back burner' because there are MacOSX
and Linux IM clients that support it.

James McKenzie

lain · Post by **lain** » Wed May 25, 2011 7:29 am

Amsn doesn't work perfectely, msnProtocole change lot of time

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed May 25, 2011 8:50 am

lain wrote:Amsn doesn't work perfectely, msnProtocole change lot of time

Then use something other then amsn. Or don't use msn at all. There are number of competing networks that actually do work fine on platforms other then Windows.

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed May 25, 2011 8:52 am

On 05/25/2011 08:29 AM, lain wrote:

Amsn doesn't work perfectely, msnProtocole change lot of time

Pidgin connects to Live accounts as well as several others, makes it
nice to run one IM client no matter which service friends/family use.

danny0085 · Post by **danny0085** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:59 am

Here you can choose the best option for msn on linux .

lain · Post by **lain** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:49 am

danny0085 wrote:Here you can choose the best option for msn on linux .

MSNP (MSNProticol) change every time and the program like amsn emesen etc have lot of compatibility bug, ok it was working 2 or 3 years ago but not now

and sorry but

No one works on that because no one needs it.

what ???? YOU no need it, sorry but when i see in the last update

" 2547 word perfect 12 trial fails to install"

who use word on wine ??? there are lot of word like on linux !!

" 15106 Google Chrome installed but with interface and connection issues."

why work on chrome wine compatibility when you can use chrome natively on linux ???

and they are lot of more useless bug fixed so don't say "No one works on that because no one needs it. "

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:50 am

On 6/4/11 1:49 AM, lain wrote:

danny0085 wrote:
Here you can choose the best option for msn on linux (http://tips-linux.net/en/linux-ubuntu/l ... /msn-linux) .
MSNP (MSNProticol) change every time and the program like amsn emesen etc have lot of compatibility bug, ok it was working 2 or 3 years ago but not now

and sorry but

No one works on that because no one needs it.
what ???? YOU no need it, sorry but when i see in the last update

" 2547 word perfect 12 trial fails to install"

who use word on wine ??? there are lot of word like on linux !!

WordPerfect 12 does NOT exist for Linux, but does for MacOSX (which is a
small segment of the users for Wine).

" 15106 Google Chrome installed but with interface and connection issues."

why work on chrome wine compatibility when you can use chrome natively on linux ???

and they are lot of more useless bug fixed so don't say "No one works on that because no one needs it. "

The Gecko engine is based on Chrome. Thus we DO have to get it to work
on Wine.

As to the Windows Live problem, you STILL have other IM clients that
work with it. If the list does not, contact the maintainers of those
products.

Lastly, fixing Windows Live is a 'back burner' project. There are other
ways to connect to it, and using Wine may actually be prohibited in some
jurisdictions (read the NEW EULA that Microsoft is slapping on their
products.) Microsoft has a ship load (500+) lawyers under contract to
enforce them and other items like patents.

James McKenzie

Charles Davis · Post by **Charles Davis** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:30 am

On 6/4/11 5:49 AM, James McKenzie wrote:

The Gecko engine is based on Chrome. Thus we DO have to get it to work
on Wine.

No it's not. Chrome uses WebKit (the same engine that Safari uses).
Gecko is Firefox's engine.

Chip

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:57 pm

On 6/4/11 8:29 AM, Charles Davis wrote:

On 6/4/11 5:49 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
The Gecko engine is based on Chrome. Thus we DO have to get it to work
on Wine.
No it's not. Chrome uses WebKit (the same engine that Safari uses).
Gecko is Firefox's engine.

Thank you for the correction. Thus Chrome like Safari for Windows can
and should be on the back burner. Getting Firefox to work with Wine is
a different story then?

James McKenzie

Post by **DanKegel** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:53 am

jjmckenzie wrote: The Gecko engine is based on Chrome. Thus we DO have to get it to work on Wine.

?

Gecko and Chrome have nothing to do with each other.

But to the larger question of why work on fixing bugs in the
windows versions of apps that are also available for Linux:
sometimes it's worth it. For instance,
if they're open source and have unit test suites,
or if the bug reports are really good and free trials are available.