Reece Dunn wrote:
Along similar lines, building on what Owen said in the talk that if all goes well Jane user will not notice that she is using Wine to run her Windows software: why is there an entry in the Applications section that says 'Wine' (and why does it have the folder icon and not the Wine icon)! It would be better if this said something like "Program Files", replacing Wine > Programs -- this removes a level of indirection and gives the user something that they are familiar with and is more discoverable than 'Wine'.
It has the Wine icon on Ubuntu. Currently, it houses the Programs submenu and 3 other menu items (Uninstall Wine Software, Configure Wine, and Browse C:\ Drive). Ideally, we'd get rid of all 3 of these: Uninstall would be integrated into Add/Remove Programs, Configure Wine would be done through system->preferences and by right click->properties on applications, and Browse C:\ Drive would be in the Places menu. Once those are gone, then we can move things "up" one step - instead of Applications->Wine->Programs, we'd just have Applications->Wine Programs.
One open question: what to do with Windows apps that don't put themselves in Program Files, but rather put themselves at the top of the start menu?
Thanks, Scott Ritchie