wine users - Jul 2005 - wine-20050725 feedback : lots of graphical glitches

Hello wine-users,

I built and installed (with wineinstall) wine-20050725 [see system info 
at end of mail].
While it works OK for most of the applications that I use (I still have 
some crashes, I will investigate them), I have lots of graphical 
glitches, some of which greatly reduce the usability of the applications :

Firefox :
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+ Installation problems, esp. with respect to icons and text. I am 
attaching small screenshots for you to see the problems. During the 
installation, the console returns :
fixme:win:SetWindowTextW setting text L"Extracting" of other process 
window 0x10022 should not use SendMessage
err:static:STATIC_SetIcon huh? hicon!=0, but info=0???

+ Main page display problem. Black boxes in rendered page (which is 
perfect on native Linux FF). Menubar scrambled. It clears up a little 
(not perfect though) when my mouse passes over it. Console says :
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} 
not registered
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID 
{4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154
err:clipboard:CLIPBOARD_CloseClipboard Failed to set clipboard.

7-Zip:
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The combo box under the icons is almost not appearing at all, making it 
impossible to navigate in directories (see small screenshot).


This is just to show the problems I am encountering. I tried searching 
in the Bugzilla but the search (keyword firefox) returned no replies. I 
have to say that the search is quite cumbersome. I use Bugzilla almost 
daily (Mozilla project for instance), and searches are a lot easier 
because there is a simple search box, instead of having everyone to use 
the advanced search function.

I also have opened an account on the AppDB. Should I report these 
problems to the apps maintainers instead (it seems so)?
There is so much documentation that I don't know what to do : you seem 
to welcome bug reports but I am not sure whether apps bugs are helpful 
to you. Are they?

Could you give me some pointers please?

Thank you. I am willing to participate and help but don't know what to 
report exactly as I am not familiar with Wine internals.

Vincent

System information as requested on 
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/bug-reporting :
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+ Wine 20050725 (note that wine -v does not work anymore, contrary to 
what the page says)
+ kernel : i686 GNU/Linux 2.4.21-27.0.1.EL (this is Redhat Entreprise WS3)
+ compiler : gcc (GCC) 3.4.3
+ windows : no windows installed or used
+ program : firefox 1.0.5, available at www.mozilla.org
+ cmdline : wine firefox.exe (in fake_c\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox)
+ X server : 4.3.0 shipped by Redhat
+ steps to reproduce : simply start firefox after installing. Same for 7zip.

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