On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:59:32 -0700 Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Watching Twitter, one fairly frequently seems people trying and failing to run iTunes 10 and the like in Wine.
Should we let them bash their heads against the wall like that?
Maybe we should detect the top ten apps that don't work with Wine, and put up a warning dialog saying they are known not to work, and people shouldn't try. (Kind of like what Windows 7 does when you do something dangerous, e.g. try to look at the contents of drive C:.)
Do you really want to prevent users from ever testing these apps in new versions of Wine, or trying to find workarounds? I do a fair amount of head-bashing myself, and I would find such a message patronizing and intrusive.
Agreed. Wine doesn't make efforts to babysit users for most other things, I don't see why this should be any different.
Also consider that if such a workaround were to go into wine, that code may long outlive the 'affected apps', and the list would quickly grow out of date.
I suppose if a packager wanted to do something like this for their distro I wouldn't complain too much, unless users started asking about it in #winehq/the forums. But this _should not_ go into vanilla wine.