wine users - Jun 2008 - How many votes would Trados need to get into support

Hi!

How I am seeing it, the cat is biting the tail. Translators are not to technical
savy and most of them will never be able to debug anything. They will not be
using Wine until the software is really working on it and Mac users are not
bothered, they use parallel.

I could start a list with the translators I know are using Linux and just dual
booting for Trados. Now to get some votes, I would have to have a target so that
most of the people don't see the votes going into the air for years. So I
would describe my problems and please tell me how many votes I should gather to
get a chance of anybody looking at it for sure.

So here I am talking in the voice of the many translators using Trados:

I would like to make some kind of process bar where the translators could
register themselves and say if the bar reached xxx, it would come interesting
for Wine to look at the few remaining bugs and try to debug them.
What should I enter as xxx?

*Status of the software:
- Mostly functional in demo mode. Some toolbar options (mostly the ones in
contact with word) are missing.
I think this is not a big problem, they are already installed but seems not to
appears. Cleaning the document (thus forcing Word to run and load the .dot file
in the background) is letting these missing options appear.
- The possibility to work within Word is not possible. It is possible to load
the macro's tool bar (.dot file) within word, all options are there, but
when trying to use the macro, Word says it can't find/load the macro. The
same macros are working perfectly when Word is used in the background by the
software.
-  Since 0.9.59, one of the dependencies for the licensing utility is refusing
to initialize. As a consequence, the licensing utility is not installing. The
licensing tool itself is still installing, silently failing (you can only see
the error message in the log).
- When the licensing utility had been installing, there was a black cmd window
opening with the licensing server initializing. It was however crashing after a
few seconds.
- Too big memories are hanging Wine.
- The window for Tag Editor is refreshing at every mouse movement. It's
weary for the eye. It should only refresh when going to the next unit.
- When using Tag Editor, it's loosing the font of the source text. It's
only using a linux-like font.

Otherwise, I have not encountered many problems during the use.
How many user should I find so that it gets worthwhile to look at?

have you filed bug reports for those issues? also include a link to demo if one
is available and can reproduce those issues

If there was a regression then run a regression test
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

In the past they have done it so. When a translator wanted a demo, they just
told to register and they will send a 30 days full options demo (on Wine though,
the 30 days demo is starting for each prefix/installation).

Here is the contact form:

http://www.lspzone.com/en/contactus/

If you can't please tell me so and I will contact them because it would be
very unusual.

Once you get it: here the prerequisites for the installation:

winetricks -q corefonts gecko wsh56 fakeie6 winxp

The rest is in the package.
You will get an error about the .NET, you can say yes to get further, this error
is after releasing the installer so of no consequence.
When it's hanging (at the moment at the end of the installation of Trados
and SLDX, usually just before the message that the installation is completed)
kill Wine and start again. Apart from that no specific trick or hack.