On December 15, 2005 01:00 am, Scott Ritchie wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:51 -0800, Bill Medland wrote:
I am intending doing some work and submitting some patches to "improve" the integration with the operating system desktop integration. Rather than waste time coding up my ideas and having Alexandre reject them I thought I'd start by specifying what I intend and awaiting a barrage of complaints. So please do comment.
SNIP
If you want prose, check out my (draft) spec for a super-cool integrated Wine in Ubuntu:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetterIntegratedWineSpec
I would be forever grateful if you could help me get this working nice by doing what can be done upstream.
As for where Wine needs to put .desktop files to put new entries in the applications menu, the standard place from what I hear is in ~/.local/share/applications. As for adding a new "Windows" program group, that has to be done somewhere else, but I believe that's out of the scope of Wine at the moment (ie: in another package).
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
Thanks for the comments, Scott.
Regarding your spec:
In Design/Nautilus and Gnome/Para 2: It is not clear which icon you mean. Do you mean the icon that appears in Nautilus and which the user double-clicks or otherwise "executes"? If so then I disagree; that icon should be the executable's icon; the package provider has gone to the trouble to produce an icon that reflects the program and it should be used; at that level it should not be relevant that it is running under Wine. If you mean the "busy cursor" then maybe I agree, but what does it achieve? Anyway, why should the Wine icon be used; does the user really care how the program is being executed?