[Wine] Wine based "Windows desktop"
André Carvalho
acarvalho at abordo.com.br
Wed Jan 18 10:57:08 CST 2006
Use ReactOS instead.
http://www.reactos.org
That's exactly what they try to do.
:)
André.
Joris Huizer wrote:
> 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 ?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> In case you really want an environment feeling just like the windows
> XP desktop, you could either make a special window manager that
> responds as much like that windows desktop as possible (that'd be
> loads of work) -- or just use one of the window managers for which
> there are themes to make desktop similar to the XP one (for instance,
> KDE comes pretty close I thought, when configured to use windows-like
> looks and behaviours)
> It's up to the user to choose to use that window manager and/or theme,
> ofcourse
>
> HTH,
>
> Joris
>
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