Announcing wineui

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 5 14:04:07 BST 2007


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:52:48AM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:51:49PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > There's no reason that couldn't be transparent to the user.
> 
> Isn't that something of a usability issue?  "Help! Some applications I install
> can be used by other users, and some can't, but I can never tell which ones fall
> into which category prior to installation."  It's not exactly intuitive, is it?

One could say the same thing about wineui, and this is certainly no surprise
to Windows users, who are accustomed to this sort of inconsistency. :-)

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 - mdz



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