A popular program that has been requested a few times via Wine is Let's Go for english learning. This activity definitely needs its own section on wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine ... SJ
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler <bsitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's awesome work! I was able to install Wine and use it, including > firefox and a win32 application I had previously build using mingw32 > under Linux on another PC and uploaded to a webserver, and then > downloaded using firefox inside wine. However, I did notice the > following oddities: > > 1. When I later resumed the activity from the journal, the wallpaper > was gone and nothing worked, although the start-menu items for firefox > were still there. > > 2. It was not clear to me how to save wine's state to the journal. > > 3. At some point the usual 'leave full-screen mode' icon appeared in > the upper-right corner, but clicking it seemed to have no effect other > than to make it disappear, i.e. no sugar UI appeared and the desktop > size did not change. > > 4. Wine crashed when I used Firefox's download manager to open the > location of a downloaded file (winefile appeared briefly, then the > whole activity crashed.) I have no idea why yet, but perhaps there is > some information left in a log file somewhere I will find. > > On the bright side, this means it's fairly trivial to run at least > some "windows-only" software on the OLPC now, which is great when > there's not yet a Sugar or Linux version. > > -Ben > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Vincent Povirk > <madewokherd+8...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The Wine activity has advanced to the point where I think it's ready >> for testing by actual users. >> >> The current package, development history, and my todo list are at >> http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine >> >> The intent of this project is to provide a shell that can be used to >> run Windows programs using Wine in the Sugar environment. It should be >> good enough that someone used to Windows can grab and install a >> Windows program without help, once the activity is installed. Ideally, >> the installer and software will both work fine in Wine and within the >> hardware limitations of an XO. In this ideal case, someone used to >> Windows should be able to operate it without help. >> >> If it does not live up to this ideal for platinum software (according >> to the Wine appdb) whose hardware requirements the XO meets, I want to >> know about it and hopefully fix it. >> >> Wine bugs and hardware limitations mean a lot of Windows programs >> won't work or won't work properly. On Linux, one can often push the >> compatibility much further than what works "out of the box" by looking >> at console messages (the log viewer works for this) and tweaking Wine. >> Don't expect everything to work perfectly, but don't give up if it >> doesn't. This is normal, even on Linux. >> >> Winehq.org has support channels for such cases (appdb, bugzilla, >> mailing lists, and the winehq irc channel). Most of the people there >> probably don't know anything about Sugared Wine, but collectively they >> should know more than I do about making Wine work in general. If a >> program doesn't work for you, you can go to any of those places for >> support. You can also email sugaredw...@codeweavers.com. That goes >> directly to me for now, but in the future (maybe the very near future) >> I may decide to send it somewhere public, like a mailing list, >> instead. >> >> Wine and the code that I developed for this project are licensed under >> the GNU LGPL. The entire package isn't quite LGPL because I included >> 7-zip. 7-zip is LGPL + unRAR restriction (you're not allowed to use >> the source code to create a RAR compressor). >> >> If you have a program that works well in this Wine package and would >> like to package it as a stand-alone .xo, please let me know. I already >> did most of the work for this so that I could include 7-zip and a >> firefox downloader/installer (and I could probably have included >> firefox itself if not for the fact that it would require uploading >> non-open-source code to repo.or.cz). >> >> Vincent Povirk >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel