On 4/16/06, Rich Gilson <signman359@gmail.com> wrote:

I must say, the turn this conversation has taken is interesting.������������In response
to what was written above, it does seem to me a curious precedent Alexandre
has set.������������After all, wasn't Wine developed to allow people to get AWAY from
Windows?������������Yet, when we go to make a GUI toolkit to make it accessible to the
masses, what are we told?������������Why, write it for Windows, of course.

1.������ You never mentioned what you want this "front-end" to do.������ I think that's pretty important to whatever you're talking about.������ Seems to me it might fit in with winecfg or something else that already exists.

2.������ Did you read the thread(s) about rewriting WineTools that occurred over the past few months?������ Are you reinventing that wheel?

3.������ Putting a GUI toolkit dependency on Wine will never make everyone happy.������ Even worse, you can't even make a majority of people happy.������ If you assume GNOME or KDE are available, you're assuming you're running on Linux.������

-Brian