Announcing wineui

[Stephan Hermann]

Moins,

Am Dienstag, den 05.06.2007, 09:16 +0200 schrieb 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?

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. 
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.

Regards,

\sh