wine users - Nov 2008 - Regression: Dragon Naturally Speaking 7.

I had installed Dragon Naturally Speaking under Wine 1.1.7 and earlier, and it
was working fine.

But now under Wine 1.1.9, the result seems to be, that the toolbar for this
application first goes into a strange state, where the (Linux) cursor disappears
whenever the mouse is positioned over the application's toolbar. And using
winecfg to emulate a virtual desktop does not change this behavior. And then, 60
seconds later, the application just dies. The fact that it no longer receives
any mouse input, also means that DNS's own settings can't be changed,
and microphone input never gets switched on.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to file a bug report about Dragon Naturally
Speaking, because there are about 25 so-called bug reports already, which do not
state any bugs.

The existing bug reports seem to be reports from various users, in which each of
them was able to install DNS better than the previous one, and according to each
so-called bug report, there was no bug.

So a real bug report, once again, will not get seen there.

Dirk

dirkmitt wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not possible to file a bug report about Dragon
Naturally Speaking, because there are about 25 so-called bug reports already,
which do not state any bugs.
> 
> The existing bug reports seem to be reports from various users, in which
each of them was able to install DNS better than the previous one, and according
to each so-called bug report, there was no bug.
> 
> So a real bug report, once again, will not get seen there.
> 

Sounds like you are mistaking the comments on the AppDB page for bug reports.
These are not bug reports.

Bug reports are in bugzilla. A quick search turned up 18 bugs for DNS, but I
don't see your problem mentioned.
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=dragon+naturally+speaking

You should run a regression test following these instructions:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting and file a bug report.

>I had installed Dragon Naturally Speaking under Wine 1.1.7 and earlier, and
it was working fine.
>
>But now under Wine 1.1.9, the result seems to be, that the toolbar for this
application first goes into a strange state, where the (Linux) cursor disappears
whenever the mouse is positioned over the application's toolbar. And using
winecfg to emulate a virtual desktop does not change this behavior. And then, 60
seconds later, the application just dies. The fact that it no longer receives
any mouse input, also means that DNS's own settings can't be changed,
and microphone input never gets switched on.
>
>Unfortunately, it's not possible to file a bug report about Dragon
Naturally Speaking, because there are about 25 so-called bug reports already,
which do not state any bugs.
>
>The existing bug reports seem to be reports from various users, in which
each of them was able to install DNS better than the previous one, and according
to each so-called bug report, there was no bug.
>
>So a real bug report, once again, will not get seen there.
>
>Dirk
Before filing a bug report, you might try compiling the latest wine version from
git, and see if the problem has already been resolved. At some point I had a
similar problem to yours with DNS 10 Standard, but it seems to have been taken
care of.
Susan

In reality, because there is so much attention already being paid to DNS,
I'm just going to hope that somebody else notices it. After all, my
experience with Bugzilla has been very poor, and how on Earth am I going to
compete with the attention being given to all those people, according to whom
everything works?