Contributor cheesehead 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.
Won't implement
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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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An automated Wine frontend with hash checking, binary linking bottles and ModDB
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Written by commodore256 the 21 Apr 11 at 23:18.
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I just woke up to a Revelation, a Vision, a Vision of a a World where Wine is as efficient and easy to use as possible, a World where Wine can be used by anybody, where "I just want my stuff to work without effing with it", a World where it's It's easy to have multiple versions of WINE and pick that version to install/run apps, (wine-1.2.x, wine-jack-1.2.y for apps that need an RT Kernel) a World where if your Wine App breaks, there will be an update script to fix it when you sync (kinda like when stuff breaks in the AUR) and be able to blacklist updates for apps that work and re-enable updates if it breaks, a World where there's integration with ModDB and the ModDB Mod will have it's own bottle and able to turn on and off mods at a click of a button.
SMART WINE
SMART
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Trust
(if you got a better acronym using "smart", comment)
I want this to be as easy to use as the Software Center, but more efficient and powerful than Playonlinux and something like a PKGBUILD script for installing Windows apps.
Feel free to add Suggestions.
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Better support for MS Windows apps
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Written by mydoghasworms the 29 Apr 09 at 07:02.
Won't implement
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Having the ability to run Windows apps is great for the following reasons:
* It provides a wider variety of applications to choose from
* It may attract more Windows users or keep users from going back to Windows after trying Ubuntu
However, the support for MS Windows apps on Linux could be improved. Getting apps up and running is not exactly straightforward or smooth.
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[Wine] Improve Drag & Drop
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Written by pi314 the 22 Dec 08 at 23:25.
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Drag and drop within one application works fine, but between different applications usually doesn't.
A lot of effort has been made to make Photoshop usable with wine but without being able to open pictures using drag & drop it becomes really annoying.
More info: http://wiki.winehq.org/DragAndDrop
Thank you very much.
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Show error when can't start wine application
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Written by natureflow the 30 Jun 08 at 19:23.
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May I can't start an wine application because some reason. In this case, wine should show an error. (GUI!)
e.g. "cannot find executable"
you only see this error on command line
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Add Wine's Tahoma to the set of default fonts
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Written by Nxx the 5 Jul 08 at 17:21.
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I think adding Tahoma from Wine package (it's free software) to the set of default fonts may significantly improve view of some web pages and opening MS Office documents.
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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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Wine automount ISOs
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Written by andruk the 8 Mar 09 at 01:23.
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It can be annoying to mount an ISO and then run Wine over and over again.
Humans don't think in terms of tools, they think in terms of tasks. Running a game is a task. Running GmountISO to mount the ISO and then running Wine are running tools.
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Wine submenu becomes cluttered
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Written by plantboy1 the 19 Jan 09 at 01:33.
Not an idea
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After installing software with WINE then removing it, a link to it stays in WINE's submenu. There is a way to get rid of it, and that's to go to, if I remember right, ~/.local/apps or something, and delete the links. However, this isn't friendly and it's annoying to have to manually delete them when the software itself was removed.
Developer comments
Solution 1 is basically a bug and is being worked on upstream, solution 2 I'm working on. -- Scott Ritchie
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Suggest to install wine if a user wants to install a .exe file
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Written by icicle the 29 Dec 08 at 22:07.
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Many users HAVE to use Windows-software (sadly).
I found that they just don't know about the existence of wine. I speak of users who even don't know that it is not possible to install Windows software directly in Ubuntu (without wine).
It would be helpful and easy for those users if they would see a message dialog, when they double-click an exe-file. This dialog could explain that they want to open a Windows program and that they could try this by using wine.
Then they should have the possibility to cancel or to install wine. After the installation the exe-file should be started with wine automatically.
UPDATE: In the dialog there should be a brief explanation that not all Windows-software will work in wine and that there might be a better linux alternative. Maybe also a link to the wine website.
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