Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Suggestions:
> >
> > 1. Preconfigured Wine
> > 2. Associated Wine with .exe files in KDE/Gnome
> > 3. Graphical config for Wine
> >
> >
> > I was using another distribution the other day, I currently run Mandrake
> > and then whichever new promising one comes out. When using the new distro
> > I noticed that when browsing through a Windows' parition the .exe files
> > were already associated with wine in KDE. I thought this was great! The
> > wine configuration was decent enough that it ran a couple programs
> > flawlessly without even having to touch a configuration file! Now I know
> > changes will need to be made by most users in order to improve
> > performance, but initial configuration being already associated with .exe
> > files in KDE is a great option. Oh in case it helps I was using Caldera
> > eDesktop. Also, I don't know if one currently exists but a graphical
> > configuration for Wine would be great!
>
> A good idea -- only problem is that [IMHO, i almost never used wine] you
> must be root to run wine no?
>
> --
> Guillaume Cottenceau
no you can be a normal user
the only reson for being root is if the config dir / and the drives selected
for wine (wich are actualy dirs ) are only wrtitable for root. easy way around
this is in the wine.conf file put $HOME/wine as the C drive or something to
that affect.
-DarkWlf
