Announcing wineui

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Moins,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 05.06.2007, 09:16 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein:
> > 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?
> 
> As I wrote in my last mail to you: wine is not stable, and it's far from
> beta release (after chatting with wine core devs)
> Therefore, better to have an external application, then something which
> is integrated into something vital for Ubuntu Gnome. 

We are not talking about building wine into gnome-app-install, only about
enabling it to manage installation/uninstallation of wine applications.  Do
you feel that this would compromise it somehow?

> Please bare in mind, if you add something to g-a-i you need to code
> something for kubuntu as well, that we don't have a difference between
> the two main flavours.
> 
> It's more a hassle to do it right now, then to wait one or two years and
> implement some stable.

The work will be useful to people who are actively using wine regardless of
its current state of development, and the code will still be here when wine
is more suitable for everyday use.

-- 
 - mdz