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Announcing Wine-doors!

Submitted by klattimer on Sat, 2006-05-20 12:07. Bag of Software

Wine-doors is an application which assists in the installation of Win32 applications on UNIX using the wine compatibility layer.

You can poke at the alpha code by pointing your browser at
Homepage: http://www.wine-doors.org/trac
Screenshots: http://www.wine-doors.org/trac/wiki/Screenshots

Wine-doors provides a yum style interface for management of windows applications and libraries on UNIX, allowing the user to specify multiple repositories and retrieve information about applications before installing them using xml descriptions in PackLists and ApplicationPacks. Wine-doors also keeps track of installed applications and allows the community to manage ApplicationPacks to ensure smooth installation and execution on linux also providing desktop entries ensuring adequete shell integration with the gnome/kde desktops.

Wine-doors is intended to replace winetools as a windows application management GUI, we are actively seeking developers familiar in python, xml and (less important) bash.

A slightly off-topic suggestion

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Tue, 2006-05-23 20:58.

This is fairly off-topic, but something which might be worth thinking about if you're dealing with wine and gnome.

Having dealt with them both for a while, I thought it would be a very nice feature to

a) Perhaps build an image preview plugin for naultius which, like the preview plugins for video, and image files could generate a "preview" for exe files, by extracting the icon for them (I know people sometimes think this is a security risk so put a windows flag emblem on there too)

b) Perhaps some of the work done here for configuring dll overrides, windows version, etc could be integrated into the properties dialog of exe files.. again perhaps in the same way there's an extra page for mp3 info,etc

Martin

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