Sugared Wine

[Vincent Povirk]

For those of you just tuning in, CodeWeavers has had me working on a
project called Sugared Wine. The plan was that I would implement a
taskbar (complete with start menu, window switcher, and system tray)
in explorer for Wine's virtual desktop and fix some virtual desktop
bugs. Jeremy White would package it for sugar, and the result would be
a usable Wine activity.

That didn't happen, but for my continued mental health I have to
release something.

On http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine there is a link to a Wine
activity (.xo file) and a git repository containing the source code I
used to build it (which itself happens to contain a set of patches to
wine). This is, to the best of my knowledge, a functional Wine
activity that you can download and run on any computer that has sugar.
It has a taskbar, and the start menu has shortcuts to some Wine
programs.

If you want to try the taskbar (it is nifty), apply all the patches
except the last three or so (those are needed for the sugarizing) to
Wine and start a virtual desktop. My plan remains to get this into
Wine, perhaps before 1.2.

Getting Wine to actually work in that environment was harder than
anticipated, and taking a desktop that (in my opinion) is good for
Wine generally and dropping it into sugar did not produce something
that works well in sugar. I've listed the sugar problems I'm aware of
on the wiki page.

So if you care about the prospect of getting a taskbar into the Wine
virtual desktop or of getting Wine into sugar, do take a look.

Vincent Povirk