Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

[marco]

A menu item is added for mandriva
and dependencies are added.

and will be active for the next version 1.1.16

Marco


Dan Kegel schreef:
> So, for people packaging wine, here's a proposed plan:
>
> 0. See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks if you're not familiar with winetricks
>
> 1. Download http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
> (or get it via svn, see http://code.google.com/p/winezeug )
> It's a monolithic shell script, so you don't need to compile it or anything.
>
> 2. Move it to /usr/bin and do chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks
>
> 3. Add a dependecy on cabextract, sha1sum, and wget or curl.
>
> 4. In your package's changelog, note which version of Winetricks
> you pulled down.  You'll want to pull down a fresh one every time
> you package Wine, as it contains download URLs that occasionally
> go stale. (In particular, I need to update the gecko URL for wine-1.1.5,
> I'll do that today.)
>
> The Suse packages already do all the above steps, I think;
> you might ask Marcus Meissner if you want to confirm the details.
>
> Here's the part that I don't think anybody does yet:
>
> 5. Add a menu item under Applications / Wine that runs /usr/bin/winetricks.
> In Ubuntu, the existing menu items are
>   Programs
>   Browse C: Drive
>   Configure Wine
>   Uninstall Wine Software
> Assuming we name the menu item Winetricks, the menu would then look like
>   Programs
>   Browse C: Drive
>   Configure Wine
>   Uninstall Wine Software
>   Winetricks
>
> Now, at some point we should come up with a better menu item name
> than Winetricks, but I have no idea how to sum it up properly.
> winetricks has a fair bit of name recognition, and requires no
> localization, so let's run with that name until we figure out
> what it should really be called, and what the GUI really
> should look like in the end.
>
> (We also need a menu item there for "Help Using Wine", but
> nobody's written that yet.  It can't just be links to the FAQ,
> since it has to work while offline.)
>
> Sound good?
> - Dan
>
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