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Windows network for wine
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Written by joewski the 24 Mar 09 at 07:56.
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When an windows application is installed the user application doesn't have access to the windows network.
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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 hardware abstract layer
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Written by da1nonly the 25 Jan 09 at 09:09.
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when you install certain windows programs on wine which access hardware deceives the program can not access the device to make it function properly, i know wine can access usb's etc, but the software could not recognize the hardware also my os is able to access it an example is the tomtom home, the software installs but when you try to connect the satnav to the pc the tomtom home does not recognize it but kubuntu is able to access the tomtom.
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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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"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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Install Windows aplications for all users with wine
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Written by jorgejhms the 17 Dec 08 at 15:03.
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Rigth now it it's very difficult to share a windows aplication with another user using wine. When you install a program it it's created in the "dirve_c" folder that every user has under his home folder (in .wine).
A way of solving this could be by creating a commom drive_c folder that is share by all the users (could be in /home/dirve_C) and that when you install a program the entry it's created in all the aplication menus of the users, just like when you install another program.
Sorry for my bad english, I'm a native Spanish speaker.
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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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