On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:50:49AM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
Random idea: might it be worth creating a "Works With Wine" button, similar to the old web-browser buttons, these images could link back to the page on winehq with a description and screenshot (or maybe the appdb) and be sent off to the app maintainers. Obviously some (Microsoft :) aren't going to put the button up anytime soon, but others such as WinRAR etc may well do - it can't hurt to try and could be a good way of getting some free advertising to Windows users who may have never even heard of Linux before.
I'm quite happy to try and knock up a design for this button and go ask the developers for software we consider "Gold" to put it somewhere on their site. So far most non-huge windows developers I've spoken to have been pretty happy that their app works in Wine, so I don't think they'd mind.
Comments?
Great idea, IMHO.
We might want to make sure there is no conflict whatsoever between a certain point in time where it happens to work with Wine and a certain point in time when *Wine* is considered "Gold" and thus the app is *supposed* to work at that time, though.
But OTOH that "certification" would probably simply translate into a web page where you can view which Wine version *exactly* with which Wine settings *exactly* has been made to work, so there wouldn't be a conflict.