Random idea: might it be worth creating a "Works With Wine" button, similar to the old web-browser buttons, these images could link back to the page on winehq with a description and screenshot (or maybe the appdb) and be sent off to the app maintainers. Obviously some (Microsoft :) aren't going to put the button up anytime soon, but others such as WinRAR etc may well do - it can't hurt to try and could be a good way of getting some free advertising to Windows users who may have never even heard of Linux before.
I'm quite happy to try and knock up a design for this button and go ask the developers for software we consider "Gold" to put it somewhere on their site. So far most non-huge windows developers I've spoken to have been pretty happy that their app works in Wine, so I don't think they'd mind.
Comments? thanks -mike
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:55, Dustin Navea wrote:
--- Rick Romero rick@valeoinc.com wrote:
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:19, Dustin Navea wrote:
--- Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle@yahoo.fr wrote:
Excuse me if I feel scared, but is this Appdb or something else ??
No. It should be a group of applications tested by wine developers (or application mantainers) and what should work more or less flawless (without native dlls). It should be the screenshot section.
In this case Appdb is already there, and only needs a maintainer. No need to duplicate work.
If you disagree, listen to what you wrote and compare it with Appdb contents...
b) A index page with a table:
| Name | Version | Status |
| Internet Explorer | 5.5 | XXX-- |
....
and a page for every application.
Problem with using the AppDB is that it is highly disorganized, and most
of
the apps are non-working in there, his suggestion his that we only list 'officially' tested and working apps on this/these page(s) AFAICS..
Maybe you could add a "Wine tested/Approved" Stamp or something similiar to AppDB (Approved image displays if column 'Approved' = 'Y'), then display all and sort by that column.
No duplication.
Not a bad idea, but the other thing is that users are going to want to be able to look at one page that lists all of the working apps and if they want more info they can click the link. At the top (or bottom) we could have a link that references the AppDB, something like:
Don't see your App listed here? Check the AppDB to see the status of it and what you can do to help get it working. http://appdb.winehq.com
Should suffice.
-Dustin
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