[Foresight-devel] Re: Role of Wine?

[Ken VanDine]

Interesting idea, although I think i don't know how important browsing
those drives are in GNOME.  Browsing in the wine app is more
interesting, and I think wine deals with that.  However, it might be
nice to find a graphical installer for windows apps in wine.

--Ken

On 4/8/07, Thilo Pfennig <thilopfennig at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> I have lately been thinking about Wine. We all know that there are some
> interesting applications for Windows and also that users like to use them.
>
> I have thought abut if we could make it easier for our users to use Wine to
> use them.
>
> I have suggested in the past that there are some problems:
>
> * If the user installs a Windows software there is no visible location for
> the driive_c etc. so if he is lucky it installs an icon on the GNOME Desktop
> and if not users have a hard time finding the installed applications.
>
> This really could be seen as an upstream problem. But also we could try to
> solve this. it could also be seen as a Nautilus/GNOME problem. But neither
> was interested in a solution.
>
> I think the most intelligent way would be some kind of Nautilus plugin that
> lists the WINE drives under "Computer" if they are available.
>
> My question now really is whoe else thinks that we should do care about Wine
> implementation?
>
> Personally I think it closes some gaps Linux still has. And Wine is coming
> near to 1.0 release and is now much, much better than some years ago.
>
> Would it make sense to have something like Windows packages for Foresight? I
> do not mean core - just a repo of its own - but packages that run well under
> Wine inside Fedora? Any thoughts in this?
>
> Thilo
>
> PS: Sure we should now care about 1.2 release (see next post)
> --
> Thilo Pfennig
> http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R
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