Wine isn't GUI user friendly

Fabian Cenedese Cenedese at indel.ch
Mon Jul 26 04:04:38 CDT 2004


>> Also, maybe we need a new debug level for that (above ERR and FIXME), 
>> which is "Human readable messages". The message as it is is perfectly 
>> understandable to programmers, but not to users. Even if it was, these 
>> messages are usually surrounded by hundred of messages that the user 
>> have no use in seeing. We should be able to let the user see only the 
>> messages that are relevant to them.
>
>Yeah, I like that idea. It could also be the first step towards moving
>certain classes of messages into a GUI form (of course it could still be
>sent to the console when you run wine like that, or be controlled by a
>config option).

What about a simple GUI-application which would call wine and capture
(and maybe parse?) the output? This would be called if a program is
started with a shortcut (no console). For the console you can still use
the normal wine. Like that the user has at least the ability to see the
messages. The content is a different matter.

bye  Fabi





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