Re: [Ayatana] RFC: How to handle wine apps in Unity?

[Eylem Koca <eylemkoca@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well put Scott. Upstream would have no reason to fix something that's
not broken with them.

Question: Would it not be possible to make the Wine Lens so that it
displays the whole Start Menu content created by Wine, with all the
subfolders and whatnot? I know it wouldn't look nearly as neat as if
we could have only the links to the main applications but it would be
much easier, and it would be consistent with a Wine user's
expectations (although probably not with Unity). In any case, such a
(pseudo-) solution would be much better than having to search for the
application name in Dash.

Eylem



On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Scott Ritchie <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/04/2011 12:13 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>> On 10/04/2011 07:35 PM, Alex Launi wrote:
>>> It's probably worth while to CC some wine developers on this. It may
>>> be good to work this out with them, because if there's no current way-
>>> we can work one out.
>>
>> We have a member of the Ubuntu Wine Team chiming in on the bug. But it
>> may be a god idea to take it up directly with upstream.
>>
>
> Just to head this discussion off at the tip:
>
> I _am_ the Ubuntu Wine team
> Upstream is not interested in breakages caused by us that only affect us
>
>
> In short, we as a project made this mess, and I need to clean it up.
>
>
> I'll try and bang out a Wine lens prototype for UDS.  As noted before,
> it would be ideal if Wine apps were just like Ubuntu apps (no separate
> uninstallers, viewable from software center, went into the traditional
> sections rather than off somewhere in Wine land), but this can't be the
> case for arbitrary apps downloaded off the internet or installed by CD.
>
> If the user uses a special tool like winetricks to install an app, we
> can do something helpful.
>
> If the application developer repackages the app properly (I'll demo one
> of these as well), then we can also do something helpful.
>
> Otherwise we're gonna look like we're a different system trying to be
> compatible, cause that's what we are.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
>
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