Announcing wineui

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Montag, den 04.06.2007, 17:51 +0100 schrieb 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.

A user suggested this some time ago:

https://bugs.beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-app-install/+bug/112052

I personally like the idea. But according to the comments of Stephan
Wine is not ready yet.

Would we be even allowed to use the term "Windows Applications" in
gnome-app-install?

Cheers,

Sebastian