Re: RFC: console & curses

[Eric Pouech]

> - If I start a command-line app in a terminal, I want
> the app to make use of the terminal, not NOT start a
> new one. Unix apps behave like this (eg. Midnight Commander)
> and command-line Wine apps should not behave any differently.

that's the 2 => B case (or more exactly, that'll be 2 => B)
except if the windows app tries to spawn a child which will require a
new console. MC (at least the DOS version I remember) is able to switch
from child to parent screen
we won't do that (in that case a wineconsole/USER will be opened for the
child)
> - I want to be able to redirect stdin/stdout for command-line
> apps like on any regular Unix app

works
> - I want to be able to use Wine command-line apps without X

ok (see thread with D Kegel who screams for this)
> - I would love to be able to choose the terminal that's started.
> That is, instead of having wineconsole pop up, wouldn't it
> be cool if konsole/gnome-terminal/rxvt/xterm/etc would be
> fired up depending on desktop-environment/user preference?

this would rather we choosen by the user with
xterm -e 'wine foo.exe bar' or
rxvt -e 'wine foo.exe bar' or
...

A+