On Mon, 16 May 2005 09:43:44 -0400, gslink wrote:
The user outside the Wine world sees a totally false picture of Wine. He loads Wine and finds there are NO current instructions on how to use it so he presumes Wine to be worthless and goes away.
The basic idea is you don't need any instructions. We currently associate EXE files with Wine, so you can just click on the EXE file. Problem is, there's no icon for them! It looks like any old unrecognised file. Unintuitive as hell, that's for sure. We need to get Jimmac or somebody else to draw us some nice win32 file icons and get them merged into the default icon themes (or our CVS).
This is a *concrete* and *achievable* task, which would hugely improve the usability of WineHQ IMO. Hand-waving about what the developers should or should not do isn't that useful, but this is the sort of job anybody can do. So why not go do it?
thanks -mike