[Bug 15912] New: Wine GUI - Wine Installer / "Bottles" for Wine - GUI Management of Installtation with Seperate Prefix Trees
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15912
Summary: Wine GUI - Wine Installer / "Bottles" for Wine - GUI Management of Installtation with Seperate Prefix Trees Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: djtm@gmx.net
I would love to see something like a wine bottle management. It should make it easy to install software into different "wineprefix"es. The purpose is to ensure programs don't interfere with each other's installation and that a completely clean uninstall is possible.
It's a workaround for a major bug and problem with Windows's missing package management and poor installation management in general and not meant as a workaround for bugs in wine.
I imagine it to work a bit like the current wine uninstaller, make it a wine installer and provide an option to pour it into a fresh clean bottle. ;) I think best would be an installation wizard.
That would make installations much more easy, clean and robust. It would also make it easier for developers, as fresh bottles would generally be used and thus config tweaking problems avoided.
The second gui would provide an overview list of installed software throughout all bottles.
In a second step some options could be added to the wizard, e.g. disable debugging, restrict directory access, etc. (a few easy options from winecfg like desktop or window mode, sound device).
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Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-05-06 05:36:23 --- This was talked about at Wineconf a bit, but hasn't really gone anywhere...
Scott, would you mind commenting?
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Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org 2009-05-06 16:51:32 --- I am working on getting a great deal of Wine integration done. I should have something to show by the end of the month at the Ubuntu developer summit - so far it's mostly panel applets and frontends to modifying the registry. It's easy enough to make this stuff Wineprefix aware in the code, however presenting a reasonable user interface to the user is a bit tougher problem.
In particular, we run into difficulties about where to put the various menu items, especially in the case of duplicates. If I install Steam and Half Life 2 into one bottle, then install steam and Left for Dead in another, what do we do with the start menu? How do we handle the removal of these programs? I'm extending Gnome-App-Install to make Wine programs uninstallable through add/remove programs, so it would need to be made clear to the user what a prefix is, which prefix the app is in, and so on.
Similarly, we run into issues with prefixes when we talk about having a centralized tool for minimal Wine configuration (System->Preferences->Windows Applications); if there are multiple wineprefixes, that would need to be aware of them (which may be easy enough), but then it also would need to allow the user to configure them independently.
Anyway, getting the integration stuff for the default prefix is a more important task than making it all prefix aware, since in most cases the default prefix will be fine. We may want to have an optional "run this installer and create a new wine prefix for it" option, which I'm experimenting with currently.
Many thanks to Christian Dannie, by the way, who is helping me with this stuff.
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Jeff Zaroyko jeffz@jeffz.name changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Jeff Zaroyko jeffz@jeffz.name 2009-08-10 02:29:21 --- *** Bug 19672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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--- Comment #4 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2010-09-07 13:28:37 CDT --- Still present.
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--- Comment #5 from jquiroga2005@hotmail.com 2010-12-20 15:35:01 CST --- Created an attachment (id=32560) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=32560) Console output during startup in Ubuntu 10.10 with Wine 1.3 beta.
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Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alias|winebottles |
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Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEW
--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2011-03-21 11:16:56 CDT --- Removing ASSIGNED status.
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Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com changed:
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--- Comment #7 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2011-03-21 12:15:04 CDT --- winetricks has this now, if that helps any.
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butraxz@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #8 from butraxz@gmail.com 2013-04-21 14:27:37 CDT --- Is still an issue with 1.5.28 or higher ?
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roger@mailinator.com changed:
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--- Comment #9 from roger@mailinator.com --- I like the idea, but none is working towards this? If not winetricks is considered as gui.
Close this bug?
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--- Comment #10 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- (In reply to roger from comment #9)
Close this bug?
It's an enhancement request. It can stay open forever, regardless of whether anyone's working on it.
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Hana Miranda hanamirandakiranaputri@gmail.com changed:
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