Announcing wineui

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:48:38AM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:15:44PM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > On May 31, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Arthur Loiret wrote:
> > >
> > >Loïc Martin a écrit :
> > >>
> > >>Just by curiosity, what are the differences with the graphical wine
> > >>applications uninstaller found in Applications>System Tools>Wine
> > >>Software Uninstaller ?
> > >
> > >wineui rather use gtk and qt toolkits rather than the win32 api for
> > >display. The goal is to make a desktop specific gui for each desktop
> > >environments, such as gtk for gnome, qt/kde for kde, and etk/ewl for 
> > >e17 for example.
> > >...
> > 
> > If your objective is to integrate with the desktop, probably the ideal 
> > solution would be to make installed Windows applications show up in the 
> > existing Add/Remove Applications window, rather than to have a separate 
> > window for them.
> 
> But the applications that are currently listed in Add/Remove Applications are
> installed system-wide, and most wine applications will end up in ~/.wine (or
> whatever it is these days).  That is an obvious incompatibility.

There's no reason that couldn't be transparent to the user.

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 - mdz