Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

[Scott Ritchie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
>> I want to cut down on the number of items in the menu as it is - winecfg
>> will be integrated into a System -> Preferences -> Windows Applications
>> menu, browse C:\ drive will be in Places, and uninstall would go into
>> Applications->Add/Remove.
> 
> Putting uninstall into Add/Remove will be an interesting bit
> of integration; you'd have to modify the Add/Remove app quite
> a bit, I think.
> 

Not too much.  Others have been kind enough to write command line
applications as front-ends to uninstallation already.

>> Once that's done, leaving winetricks in the menu would be out of place.
>>  Though maybe it could go into the same System -> Preferences -> Windows
> 
> But it's not a preferences; it's an add/remove kind of thing,
> so maybe it too should go into Add/Remove?
> 

Actually that's not a bad point.  That would require some hacking though
(though perhaps not too much, since winetricks is also command line driven).

> Anyway, in the meantime, can you add it into the Wine menu
> for this release, and sort out where it really belongs later?
> It really is a missing piece, and having all the Wine stuff
> together in one menu entry is arguably a nice way to group it,
> at least for now.
> 

Agreed.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie