Pavel: Thanks for the English correction

I added your patch to ie6.reg. I will learn more about AcceptLanguage and maybe in the future we include this registry entry according to user’s locale.

And I’m always trying to clean up ie6.reg. Every IEs4Linux include a smaller version
I have some experiments here with this registry. I was able to run IE without ie6.reg, but some things appear very weird. But it is a sign that we can remove many things…

“Search” in IE6 and IE7 appears in Chinese (or maybe in some other Asian language). It happens because AcceptLanguage is not set. MSIE doesn’t send the value from the locale.
Adding this to winereg/ie6.reg helps:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International]
“AcceptLanguage”=”en-us;q=0.5″

Perhaps the scripts could be changed to set AcceptLanguage based on the MSIE locale. That is, if German IE is installed, set AcceptLanguage to de-DE.

I have noticed that even if I just open Tools->Internet Options, reset Advanced Options to defaults and save them, some new options appear in the registry.

I think we should make sure that all such options are initialized if they are initialized in Windows. The IE behavior may be unpredictable if an option is missing from the registry.

ie6.reg is still huge. Maybe the root certificates could be downloaded or extracted from the IE6 DLLs?

Slopes says (three posts above this, point #4, @ http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/news/38#comments ) that he’s relaxing the Internet Security scheme so that plugins will install without approval. Not ideal, but it eliminates one reason for going into “internet options”.

Another option is to interrupt execution of ies4linux in between the installation of ie6/flash and ie7, fix the “internet options” in ie6, and then continue execution of ies4linux. The ie6 directory is copied over as the starting point for ie7, so changes to its “internet options” will carry over to ie7. In 2.5 beta 2, for example, at line 238 of ies4linux-2.5beta2/lib/install.sh, insert just above the ie7 comments:

echo Pausing to fix ie6’s \”internet options\”. Hit return when done…
read

Then execute ies4linux-2.5beta2/ies4linux on a console window, wait for the inserted message, execute “ie6″ (if it is not in ~/bin, it will be in ~/.ies4linux/bin), fix your “internet options” and exit ie6, then hit “Ret” on the console to continue the ie7 install. This is of course a one time fix, until the reason for this not working in general is found and fixed.

Good luck!

I have updated my wine from 0.9.9 to 0.9.28 and the version 7 of IE works fine. But… When i select tools > internet options from dialog menus, i see a pop-up “Restrictions: this operation has been cancelled …” and i can’t edit and modify internet options.

Another idea??

Thanks

I found the problem with that annoying window: the installation of riched that I removed on 2.5beta1. It seems that we *really* need it, so it will be back on beta3.

1) Beta 3 will try both du -b and ls -laF (maybe this work on every platform, thanks Raven).

2) If I understood, the Hebrew problem is that dialog that appears. But I think it is not related to Hebrew, some other sites open that dialog too. Try gmail, for example: when you read some message, that dialog appears. I’m trying to figure out what is opening this dialog.

3) fulko: thanks for your help with Python 2.3, but I think we can’t just apply this patch. Popen returns a process object, where we can call poll() ou get the process pid (see function abort_installation_callback on ies4linux.py). We have to discover how to do this things using os.popen2.

4) fulko: Yes, ActiveX now installs without prompt (I think this is better than not installing, but this is a problem). It is related to IE security policies. I discovered how to enable ActiveX, but I can only enable everything, I don’t know how to make the confirmation windows appears by default. If anyone wants to try something on this area, look at ie6.reg:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3]

This registry entry configures the security policies for Internet Zone (compare this 2.5 Beta3 values with the 2.0.5 values – one is too restrictive and other is insecure

5) Tase Hagi: Winelibs may be a option (I did not think on winelib before
Wxwidgets is a very good idea too (that one I have already considered . I’ll see… Thanks!

6) Bundyo: I think anyone had noted this before, but I think you are right It is a very good news!
But it seems to be something with Wine 0.9.27, not with IEs4Linux…
Anyone can confirm this? (my system: ubuntu edgy, wine 0.9.28)

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