Dan Kegel wrote:
I know, when I wrote Winetricks, I meant it as a developers' tool only. But... then... people started using it, and it made sense to provide it as a way to download missing visual C++ runtimes etc. for average users.
Quite a few newbies trip over the fact that it needs cabextract installed. Let's make it easy for folks, actually package it up along with Wine (SuSE does this already), and put it in the Wine menu right beneath "Uninstall Windows Software".
What do people think? It might make life easier for a lot of folks.
I want to cut down on the number of items in the menu as it is - winecfg will be integrated into a System -> Preferences -> Windows Applications menu, browse C:\ drive will be in Places, and uninstall would go into Applications->Add/Remove.
Once that's done, leaving winetricks in the menu would be out of place. Though maybe it could go into the same System -> Preferences -> Windows
(And, come to think of it, we should include some documentation in that menu. "man wine" just doesn't cut it for the average gui user, and "wine manual page" in the gnome help browser is a broken link. But that's a separate issue.)
- Dan
There's already a help feature in the distribution right next to the menu - we should provide documentation there and avoid clutter.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie