Karl Lattimer wrote:
Am Mo, M�r 27, 2006 at 09:32:29 -0500 schrieb Segin:
There is one reason, inarguable (if you reply to this you have a IQ of
0) as to why WineTools is useless: Most of the WineTools 'magic' is in
it's ~/.wine/config file, which Wine no longer uses/acknoleges,
thefore,
WineTools is utterly useless and has no point in existing AT ALL,
PERIOD.
IMHO winetools has a still useful feature, and that is it allows users
to easily create an initial wine drive, configure and install some
applications and otherwise assist in new wine users to get to grips
with wine in an easy and I use this term loosely 'user friendly' way.
The problem is that wine tools hasn't adhered to any usability guides
and doesn't provide a community orientated feedback, or use the
community to gain information about applications. The design of
winetools was created initially by frank of frankscorner but he isn't
a UI programmer, just an every day hacker. The fact that the whole
application is written in bash using Xdialog is a bad start, the code
scared me, 3000+ lines of bash.
I'm aiming to change this, I welcome any help especially in python.
The main aim of the project I am working on with a couple of new found
friends, is to improve accessibility of wine to new linux users to
help get people switch from windows to linux. This aim is shared among
the wine developers and users I believe.
And also, accusing people of having an IQ of 0 for replying to a flame
isn't in the slightest constructive, and I would rebut that you are in
fact the one of lower than average intellect as it requires a certain
type of stupidity to insult your peers in general terms.
K,
PS, a little about the projects I have worked on before, I wrote
gnome-settings-visualeffects a while back, and got too many flames and
crank emails too many eye candy enthusiasts asking dumb questions so
eventually i scrapped it. I also worked on the new freevo webserver2
code which was displayed this year at CeBIT. I work on human
interfaces every day and I'm looking to bring some gnome HIG zen to
winetools, oh and a snappy new name... wine doors ;) (say it quickly
three times)
Python!!?! i almost did a C | N > K (that would be cola, pepsi rather,
through nose to keyboard)
ok ok ok ok although i almos-t ruined a perfectly free and good
keyboard, i don't like python cause i don't know it, and the learning
curve has been... dreadful.
Can't we do this in C?
