Wine 0.9 TODO v0.1

[Mike Hearn]

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?
thanks -mike

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:55, Dustin Navea wrote:
> --- Rick Romero <rick at valeoinc.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:19, Dustin Navea wrote:
> > > --- Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > >Excuse me if I feel scared, but is this Appdb or something else ??
> > > > > 
> > > > > No. It should be a group of applications tested by wine 
> > > > > developers (or application mantainers) and what should work more 
> > > > > or less flawless (without native dlls). It should be the screenshot 
> > > > > section. 
> > > > 
> > > > In this case Appdb is already there, and only needs a maintainer.
> > > > No need to duplicate work.
> > > > 
> > > > If you disagree, listen to what you wrote and compare it with Appdb
> > > > contents... 
> > > >  > b) A index page with a table:
> > > >  > 
> > > >  > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >  > > | Name                | Version |  Status                  |
> > > >  > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >  > > | Internet Explorer   | 5.5     |  XXX--                   |
> > > >  > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >  > > ....
> > > >  > and a page for every application.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Problem with using the AppDB is that it is highly disorganized, and most
> > of
> > > the apps are non-working in there, his suggestion his that we only list
> > > 'officially' tested and working apps on this/these page(s) AFAICS..
> > 
> > Maybe you could add a "Wine tested/Approved" Stamp or something similiar 
> > to AppDB (Approved image displays if column 'Approved' = 'Y'), 
> > then display all and sort by that column.
> > 
> > No duplication.
> > 
> Not a bad idea, but the other thing is that users are going to want to be
> able to look at one page that lists all of the working apps and if they want
> more info they can click the link.  At the top (or bottom) we could have a
> link that references the AppDB, something like:
> 
> Don't see your App listed here?  Check the AppDB to see the status of it and
> what you can do to help get it working.  http://appdb.winehq.com
> 
> Should suffice.
> 
> -Dustin
> 
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