Contributor Eldmannen on Wine
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Windows version of Firefox in Ubuntu
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Written by sploopidy the 11 Jul 08 at 01:17.
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A lot of us use WINE to run the Windows version of firefox. I use Firefox on ubuntu, but I like my Add-ons and themes for it. When I use Windows, I can install all I want. In ubuntu when I use firefox, It says, "This add-on is not availible in Linux" or something in that manner. We should fix that, I'm sure everyone hates being confused in which browser to use, either Firefox or Firefox.
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iTunes Pre done With Wine
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Written by F1337 the 4 Aug 08 at 18:45.
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iTunes is a very popular music player, the only problem is that it cant work well on Ubuntu. Living in a household of 3 people with 3 iTunes users and 2 Pure Linux users, we have to collaborate all our music on our friends XP. I have tried to get iTunes to work through wine but I can never do it. I dont know if there would be licensing though.
Developer comments
Getting iTunes working should be as simple as just running the installer. The problem is that Wine itself has a bunch of bugs that prevent this from going smoothly. There's not much extra we can do on our end other than help fix Wine.
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"break-up" Wine to smaller "projects / applications"
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Written by Primož Papič the 16 Dec 08 at 16:02.
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OK I know that this is not the best place to propose this kind of idea, that's why I proposed to make a "Linux / FLOSS brainstorm page".
So take this idea more of an test-tube to see if it's supported, so that I can propose it to WineHQ or some where...
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Wine is really good project and application, but I feel it's a bit too big, and trying to do too much.
This means that some things were supported, but are no longer supported..
Let me just show it on my example:
My favourite game is Medieval 2: Total War, and it supposed to work really good on Wine. But that's not the case, if you go look in AppDB you'll se it works fine in Ubuntu 7.10 and newest Gentoo but it's marked as garbage on newest Wine and Ubuntu.
That's because sometimes Wine breaks backward compatibility.
So I think if Wine would be broke-up in Wine-Office, Wine-games and Wine-apps it might work better.
Just take a look at "Wine-games". Now you have many of Wine hacks like Play on Linux or WineDoors to get better support for games, but if there would be an Wine-games all this "hacks" could be merged under one project...
The same thing goes for other "Wines"...
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Sub Idea:
This is an sub-idea that should not be considered as a part of the main idea...
(Look at IdeaTorrent to see how this will be done in "future" Brainstorm)
Maybe this broken Wines could be less than an app and more like some daemons.
I still think that mono could be used to provide .NET framework, that so many games need.
Just put an installatin disk of M2:TW or GTA4 and you'll see what I mean...
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Any comments are welcomed!
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Native support for Nokia and Sony Ericsson Phones
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Written by zgherlos the 25 Oct 08 at 15:46.
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Currently we have to install additional software (sometimes full of bugs ) to sync our Nokia or Sony Ericsson phone.Some phones can be firmware updated with Nokia Software Update , but that application is just for Windows .
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wine appearance and theming
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Written by jpka the 24 Jul 08 at 20:46.
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When I go to 'Wine configuration - Desktop integration', there is no simple way to use my current theming of Ubuntu.
I have only options of 'install theme' (it's a windows file? where I can get it?!) or manually set each item color, and each time when I change Ubuntu theming, I must again and again set each item in Wine manually.
I suggest to integrate Ubuntu theming in Wine. It looks not so hard.
Developer comments
The problem isn't Ubuntu specific: Wine's theming implementation still sucks. This is largely an upstream issue (there was a summer of code project at one point, but it didn't fix the slowness, and it didn't add any good magic to use the current system theme colors).
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Packing Winetricks
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Written by DrHalan the 11 Nov 08 at 16:57.
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I think winetricks should be either a seperate package or included into the wine package
Cool would also be a GUI for it.
If you don't know what winetricks is. It is a shellscript to download for example native dlls or fonts for wine.
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Wine installations for the Whole system
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Written by randall29 the 17 May 08 at 18:54.
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Ok, I know it's not exactly an Ubuntu-related idea, but I think it's important.
Actually, when a user installs a program in Wine, only this user has the autorisation to access the program, meaning that if two or more persons want to access the software, they must share one user account, or install the program for each user, resulting in a lost of disk space (especially when it comes to Office or Photoshop).
I propose a installation mode, which should use sudo, and could create another fake C: drive somewhere in /, so that the programs can be installed for the whole system.
Of course, it should still be possible to install programs only for one user, with the actual way of installation.
Wine would then check in the user virtual C drive for programs, and PolicyKit could be used (if possible to integrate it in Wine) for launching system-wide programs.
Not in sudo mode, of course, just an authentication process (cause it's localized in the main directory tree).
Another solution could be to make the virtual C drives or some parts of it (like the folder containing the program) accessible to other users via an authentication process or a sharing thing.
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