Wine Front-End development

[Karl Lattimer]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 19:54 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 16:17 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > 
> > I seriously doubt that as far as users are concerned that dependencies
> > would be an issue, the user in general just wants something that
> > works, and they don't care that 4 extra dependancies are required
> > (python, gtk, pygtk, pygtk-glade)
> 
> For what is worth, I personally think you've made the best choice of
> tools for this project. The problem with the "least common denominator"
> approaches is that you get a sub-par result. Don't let the rhetoric slow
> you down. 
> 

Thanks for your support ;)

> As for the toolkit, you have a choice of 3: Gtk+, Qt, Win32. Problem
> with Win32 is that you get an app that looks strange in both GNOME and
> KDE

The great thing is almost all of the back end stuff (except progress bar
updates in the queue runner) are completely toolkit independent, if
someone wants to write a win32 UI or a Qt UI and integrate it well into
the interface, supply patches for testing then I'll happily accept them
if they don't break GTK. 

I've even thought of a way of making the progress bar update code work
across all UI's so there is easily scope for achieving this.

Tomorrow I create a 'standard' for application packs, this is the
archive of resources (scripts, reg files, icons, xml etc...) which make
it easy to install windows applications and have them integrate nicely
with gnome/kde.

K,