On Monday 13 October 2003 04:56 pm, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
There already is an app that can do the menus, the ros explorer. If it was compiled as a winelib app, it would solve the menu problem, at least for who likes desktop mode (And the ros explorer makes wine look like a "real" emulator)
Yes but I think what Robert van Herk wants is something integrated with the window manager. For example his recent post suggests a picture like
[wine .exe server] <--> [native linux client] <--> [kde / gnome / twm]
The real challenge would presumably be on the linux client side, and obviously the data transport provides some exciting open questions.
There is a certain logic to this arrangement imo... who wants some wacky "explorer.exe" if they are simply thumbing through the kde or gnome menus? Not that I disapprove of ros explorer, quite the contrary! ros explorer approximates the behavior of windows explorer, which wine needs for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it's an integral part of the OS... whereas I think Robert van Herk means to create a bridge or portal allowing native frameworks like gnome to integrate the wine menus into their own...
Correct me if I have this all wrong of course :P But if that's the case then it's a different animal from ros explorer, and imo a worthwhile effort.