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Idea #1457: Better wine integration and front end

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #762: Better Wine integration.
Written by lubosz the 29 Feb 08 at 14:47. Category: Gaming. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Did you see the platinum support list of wine? it would be nice if the average user could benefit of this great application layer and the setup routine and configuration frontend would be easier to use. (like wine system settings, and wine by default, open exe files with double click, etc).
this could be targeted to games (game cd is recognized, wine support is shown)
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Written by lubosz the 29 Feb 08 at 14:47.
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schmappel wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:52
Agreed, that would be helpful. There's already a front-end for Wine called Wine-Doors (www.wine-doors.org), perhaps it could be integrated?

lubosz wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:57
there is a standart wine config (winecfg), but you can't manage wine prefixes, and its not placed in the system settings. plus its a windows app, not a gnome app.
creating a prefix has to be done with the terminal, deleting a prefix has to be done by hand.
the avarage user should benefit of wine, and be taken by the hand in this case

bradbrownjr wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:11
Wine should be as easy to use as the Mac Classic emulation did in OS X.

fyo wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:28
This would only work in some versions of Ubuntu (e.g. not 64bit where a 32bit chroot environment is the standard way to get Wine working).

webs05 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:14
I like the idea of the front-end, but this is yet another Duplicate entry.

rsepulvedacl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:46
@fyo: Now you can use Wine easily with AMD64 architecture with no need to type commands like chroot.

I guess we could make this integration making scripts into deb packages to install some useful applications. These applications could be available for the all of the users of the computer. These applications could be installed in the background just like packages like msttcorefonts and flashplugin-nonfree do, then packaged info files like .iso, .tar.gz, .zip, etc. These applications could come with launchers to setup every detail when the user wants to use those programs (such as creating a hidden directory in /home, define WINEPREFIX and mounting the file (that .iso, .tar.gz, .zip, etc.), into this directory. If this WINEPREFIX directory already exist, the launcher just have to run the program.
I hope this idea can be useful. :-D

rsepulvedacl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:58
I'd like to see a package that includes some basic Firefox binaries to run plugins available only for Windows (like Shockwave) and then run them wrapped as nspluginwrapper allows to run Flash into environments different from 32 bits Linux (Like Solaris, AMD64, etc.)


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