Karl Lattimer wrote:
Am Mo, M�r 27, 2006 at 09:32:29 -0500 schrieb Segin:
There is one reason, inarguable (if you reply to this you have a IQ of 0) as to why WineTools is useless: Most of the WineTools 'magic' is in it's ~/.wine/config file, which Wine no longer uses/acknoleges, thefore, WineTools is utterly useless and has no point in existing AT ALL, PERIOD.
IMHO winetools has a still useful feature, and that is it allows users to easily create an initial wine drive, configure and install some applications and otherwise assist in new wine users to get to grips with wine in an easy and I use this term loosely 'user friendly' way.
The problem is that wine tools hasn't adhered to any usability guides and doesn't provide a community orientated feedback, or use the community to gain information about applications. The design of winetools was created initially by frank of frankscorner but he isn't a UI programmer, just an every day hacker. The fact that the whole application is written in bash using Xdialog is a bad start, the code scared me, 3000+ lines of bash.
I'm aiming to change this, I welcome any help especially in python. The main aim of the project I am working on with a couple of new found friends, is to improve accessibility of wine to new linux users to help get people switch from windows to linux. This aim is shared among the wine developers and users I believe.
And also, accusing people of having an IQ of 0 for replying to a flame isn't in the slightest constructive, and I would rebut that you are in fact the one of lower than average intellect as it requires a certain type of stupidity to insult your peers in general terms.
K,
PS, a little about the projects I have worked on before, I wrote gnome-settings-visualeffects a while back, and got too many flames and crank emails too many eye candy enthusiasts asking dumb questions so eventually i scrapped it. I also worked on the new freevo webserver2 code which was displayed this year at CeBIT. I work on human interfaces every day and I'm looking to bring some gnome HIG zen to winetools, oh and a snappy new name... wine doors ;) (say it quickly three times)
Python!!?! i almost did a C | N > K (that would be cola, pepsi rather, through nose to keyboard)
ok ok ok ok although i almos-t ruined a perfectly free and good keyboard, i don't like python cause i don't know it, and the learning curve has been... dreadful.
Can't we do this in C?