Wine, WIDE & Unix (was: Support for pkgconfig)

[Steven Edwards]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

>Yes, they become better integrated, but we're at the beginning of the
>road, and we still don't even get the easy stuff perfect: L&F, system 
>tray, etc. I can see unifying most settings so we don't have to configure
>things twice, but we're far away, there seems to be little political
>will (especially on the KDE side). But what about OLE? KDE will never
>accept CORBA (for good reasons), while GNOME will not drop it.
>That's the big one: how do you integrate the apps more than making
>them just look the same?
>
This is kind of off topic but I have been pondering this for a while. Is 
someone working on Xdnd in WINE? I emailed  Jean-Claude Batista about 
his work for Corel using OLE with Xdnd but I dont think anyone is 
working on this in WINE atm. I would be nice if we could get some sort 
of OLE <-> Xdnd bridge going that is portable. That way the KDE on 
Cygwin and GNOME on cygwin people could use it also on X for Mingw/Cygwin.

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>   -- There are a bunch of free Win32 apps on SF which are very
>      popular. I can choose some of those, like eMule, Mozilla/Win32,
>      etc. I may use the ReactOS Explorer replacement instead of
>      Nautilus, if they do a good job with it.
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Lets us hope we do a better job then microsoft or no one will use 
ReactOS or your WIDE <g>