Announcing wineui

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 5 09:55:37 BST 2007


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:16:51AM +0200, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Am Montag, den 04.06.2007, 17:51 +0100 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > > 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.

It certainly seems ready for a UI, considering that there seem to be several
being developed. :-)

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

I don't see why not.

-- 
 - mdz



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