On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Martin Pilka wrote:
: hello all!
:
...
: once again, your notice are welcomed.
First of all, thnx a lot!
Now, it would be nice to find some way, how to make this utility
"cross-desktop". What do I mean? Consider this: many people will use GNOME
/ KDE / Corel-desktop (How is it called?) or bare X with wine (and
possibly something like "wine-desktop" ... maybe).
I absolutelly think, the "wine.conf graphical front-end" for GNOME
_should_ be a GNOME application (written using Gtk+ and gnome-libs),
similary the KDE one should be written using Qt and the "bare wine" by
using winelib.
Now it would be nice not to "invent the wheel" for each desktop
separately, but rather to create some "skeleton" for the app, with desktop
specific addons, that would be possible to compile then separately for
each desktop.
We can maybe use some meta-configuration file, that would describe, what
the wine.conf entries are (including help), that would be distributed with
each wine version, making the configuration program up-to-date.
And Yes, the "wine.conf configurator" is not the only program, that is
desktop-dependant and would be nice to be developed somehow "centrally"
for all wine-desktop combinations. Consider e.g. 1) help browser (or
better: the possibility to view windows .hlp files using native
help-browser of the current desktop); or 2) integrating the
component-systems between wine & the desktops; or 3) integrating "start
menu" and "the desktop" between wine and the desktops (so that freshly
installed program's entry will appear somwhere in the GNOME/KDE/whatever
"start menu".)
I think, we need some central "wine-desktops intergration project", that
would create skeletons for such integrattion effords.
I'd be willing (time permits) to help such effords.
: have a nice day...
have a nice night ;-)
: martin
Petr Tomasek
(Sorry for my english...)
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Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/
