Hello

Thanks. These are good ideas.  I hope I have done my best yet to support the developpers. I had already good feedbacks with patches to test against a wine version for fixing a certain problem.  But also sometimes I don't have the time (other things keep me really busy) to make that wide testes. As far as I see that I can file a useful bug report with less than a half day I see to get the time to make more intense tests to get a good quality bug report. On other side, I also see bugs which are completely (or no fix replay) untouched since they where reported. See Bugs #3599  #3611 #3800. The other part is (and I think I'm not alone with this) that I can only maintain a limited apps at a time. There whould be much more apps to maintain (the ones I know from my daily business) but currently I don't have the resources to do this. So I hoped that  I can start with a "most important list" and work on this list as maintainer until they are completely working with wine to go forward for new ones to get them working. But I noticed that I working still on the same count of apps.  Maybe i'ts not important for all but here a small list of the apps which are regulary requested to be working on Linux (out of the box):

    - Corel Draw 9-13 (much often, not just by myself)
    - MS Office XP / 2003 (specially Outlook and Access) (sorry)
    - MS Project (sorry again)
    - Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign
    - Adobe Premiere (I know its nearly impossible)
    - Lotus Notes (6.5.x / 7.0)
    - DentalLab XP (a small erp solution for Dental Technicans)
    - The Nokia Sync Software for their mobiles
    - Serveral Tools to feed GPS navigation PDA's
    - Adobe Acrobat (Professional) (I don't know why)
    - NavBox Pro Plan (Aviatics Application) (private pilots)
    - PCMet (Meteo app for aviatices (private pilots))
    - AustroControl (Meteo app for aviatices (private pilots))
    - Pocket FMS (Navigation Software etc.)
   
I know there are a lot of others which I cannot rember yet. It whould need to take a small survey but I know there are others.
I also know that for the most of the listed apps are good linux equivalents avialable. As I said before, its (my) goal to bring the people frist to a linux desktop. switching from the windows apps to their linux alternatives can be made later when theyself recognize that the native linux app is more powerful than their windows version.

Roland