[Wine] Wine based "Windows desktop"

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Jan 17 18:08:14 CST 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:10 +0100, Hans Christian Studt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like set up a Linux desktop icon and menu item that will launch 
> a wine based "Windows desktop".
> 
> Ideally the "Windows desktop" should look excactlly like a *default* 
> windows 2K/XP desktop.
> 
> Is this possible ?
> Has anybody already done so ?
> Is that already docemented somewhere ?
> 
Linspire?
AFAICT it is built for that purpose, and the desktop manager is designed
for that look and feel.

> I think this would allow more users to try out wine using the familar 
> windows gui interface.
> 
> Next step would be to install simple windows applications all within the 
> familar windows environmet.
> 



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