On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:20:10 -0800 Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
James Gregory wrote:
Ok, fair enough. Let me start by prefacing this: it won't be perfect, it can't be perfect. I am doing this as a starting point for getting Wine a bit more integrated with Linux. In particular I would like it to integrate more with the GNOME desktop I use (no technical reason to choose GNOME over KDE other than I use GNOME so I'd be able to test the code I write :)). I have only thought through the first few steps; after that I'll be in a better position to see what direction to take next.
Integration is a good goal! It's great that you're thinking about it.
Depends how it is done. What worries me is the statement 'more integrated with Linux' - wine runs (or should do) on BSDs as well where there are already problems. Any work that made things worse is undesirable.
There are also a growing number of people getting upset about the resource requirements of the window managers and wanting to go back to fvwm and the like. There was a thread recently on uk.comp.os.linux by someone who was not happy with the performance of Gnome or KDE on a PIII-500.
There are also some strange things being done by packagers - the other day I had to make a minimum install of SuSE and it tried to insist on the large Cyrus-SASL libraries being loaded just because I had cron installed. I get worried about just what these people will do every time I see someone wanting to tie to anyhting more than a minimum set of libraries.