Wine isn't GUI user friendly

[Shachar Shemesh]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>Christian Neumair <chris at gnome-de.org> writes:
>  
>
>>That reminds me of asking for nicer, GUI-driven error handling:
>>touch mustardandwiener.exe &&
>>wine mustardandwiener.exe
>>returns
>> wine: cannot determine executable type for L"H:\\Desktop\\test.exe"
>>which is neither verbose enough nor user friendly, because it is simply
>>printed at a terminal. Modern desktop environments usually launch wine
>>from their file manager, i.e. without terminals.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, as to the contents of the message itself, I don't know how it
>could be improved. You asked Wine to run an empty file and it said it
>can't figure out what kind of executable it is: why is this a problem?
>  
>
A user often doesn't understand what that means. A proper error message 
should be, at the very least, something like the following:
Wine cannot run "H:\Desktop\test.exe". It is not in a format Wine 
understands.

Also, maybe we need a new debug level for that (above ERR and FIXME), 
which is "Human readable messages". The message as it is is perfectly 
understandable to programmers, but not to users. Even if it was, these 
messages are usually surrounded by hundred of messages that the user 
have no use in seeing. We should be able to let the user see only the 
messages that are relevant to them.

             Shachar

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