On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Reece Dunn <mscl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed that when wine creates a menu item (that for example, > on Ubuntu gets put in the Applications > Wine > Programs menu), the > command that gets written uses 'wine' as the program to run. This > means that you need to have Wine in your PATH and cannot use more than > one version of Wine. For example, if I wanted to use /opt/wine-1.0, > /opt/crossover and /opt/wine for different applications I cannot > access these correctly from the menu items created. Additionally, the > user experience (yes, I have been watching Owen's Google talk :)) is > that the application does not start (especially if the only version of > Wine is not on the PATH). > > The solution to this is to add the full path to wine, e.g. > '/opt/wine-1.0/bin/wine' when generating the menus. Are there any > objections to this? > > Along similar lines, building on what Owen said in the talk that if > all goes well Jane user will not notice that she is using Wine to run > her Windows software: why is there an entry in the Applications > section that says 'Wine' (and why does it have the folder icon and not > the Wine icon)! It would be better if this said something like > "Program Files", replacing Wine > Programs -- this removes a level of > indirection and gives the user something that they are familiar with > and is more discoverable than 'Wine'. > > Thoughts? > > - Reece > > >
There's actually a bug on this: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17055 but didn't generate much discussion. Personally, I like it. -- -Austin
