Announcing wineui

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi Matt,

Am Dienstag, den 05.06.2007, 09:57 +0100 schrieb 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?

That I didn't say. An Installation/Removal tool outside wine would be
nice (for both of the main desktops) but right now, it wouldn't be that
great, just because wine is far away from being stable. Chats with wine
core devs gave me the opportunity to see what those devs need: more
experienced "hackers" to use a debugger and winedbg to find out what's
wrong and file bugreports towards them. With an installation tool inside
our infrastructure, it will give us more hassels, because more people
are not using free software, but windows software, and more bugreports
are flooding our malone with not usable apport bug reports. this is
something which we shouldn't want to have.  What the winehq devs need is
written on http://www.winehq.org/?issue=330, topic Debugging, and this
is something we don't have right now. 

> 
> > 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.
> 

Well, if there is a plugin to g-a-i or the kde brother, ok. This could
be installed as a binary dep to wine. but directly integrated, I would
say no.

Regards,

\sh