Alternate shell?

[John Klehm]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> The menus are messed up (they contain garbage text), and
>> as I said earlier, there's no start menu.
>
> You should look at explorer-new. Its in the ReactOS source tree and
> being developed by Thomas Weidenmuller as a real Windows compatible
> shell replacement. Unfortunately it does not work on Windows or
> ReactOS at this time. The old ReactOS explorer will be removed when
> explorer-new is ready.
>
>
> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>

Just thought since I probably will be gone all weekend I'd report
before next week.

I'll try and write up something more useful after this but here's my
dogfood process so far:

wget "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.14&os=win&lang=en-US"
wget "http://www.xoblite.net/files/xoblite_bb3_rc1.zip"
mkdir xoblite && cd xoblite && unzip xoblite_bb3_rc1.zip

ubuntu logout and change session to failsafe terminal
bring up wifi
$wine ~/xoblite/Blackbox.exe
$wine ~/Firefox\ Setup\ 2.0.0.14.exe

The main problem seems to be lack of windowing and keyboard input,
nothing has a title bar.I wonder if that is because bb4win seems to
call RegisterShellHook which is a stub in wine?

On the upside I was able to launch firefox from bb4win and browse to
some sites fairly easily. =P