Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I've been looking for a WINE front end to run some MS
>>> apps. (specifically MYOB, but others as well)
>>
>> When you say "front end", what are you thinking of?
>>
>> I ask because my Ubuntu system works exactly as I would expect:
>> running the MYOB installer through Wine installed the software and
>> added the "Start Menu" folders and icons into the KDE "Wine" menu.
>>
> As I understand it, things like playonlinux add a user-friendliness
> form of GUI which makes WINE simpler to configure and install,
Simpler than using the existing tools supplied with your distribution to
install the supported software packages? I would be surprised.
> whilst at the same time you still have access to the underlying
> aspects of WINE if you want.
Again, I don't really understand what you mean. Wine doesn't really
have "underlying aspects" in any meaningful sense -- it isn't like you
get a dozen separate utilities to run.
You just, you know, run 'wine example.exe'[1] and it works.
> If WINE is complete, why do further applications which sit on top of
> it exist?
Good question. Again, this depends on what /you/ mean be "complete", in
that I can't answer your question because wine is, so far as I can tell,
functional and complete.
> My current understanding is that I'm likening playonlinux (and such
> apps) is to WINE just as GKrellm is to lm_sensors.
>
> Is this incorrect?
I think so, in that your question seems to carry the same assumption as
before: that wine is somehow "deficient", "incomplete" or "broken" as
shipped, and that third party solutions are required to provide a GUI
front end to do ... something.
I still don't know what that something is, though, and I am having
trouble even imagining what it could possibly be.
Now, if you had talked about, for example, commercial support for
Microsoft Office, or better support for Windows games[2], then this
would have made sense.
Talking about a "user friendly GUI" to something that doesn't really
have a command line, as such, doesn't make much sense though.
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] ... or double-click on the executable in your file manager.
[2] At least for a while some of the non-free branches of wine had
better support for this. I don't know if that is still true.
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