Alternate shell?

[Susan Cragin]

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
>Sent: May 22, 2008 6:16 PM
>To: Wine Develop <wine-devel at winehq.org>
>Subject: Alternate shell?
>
>For a maximal dogfood experience, I was looking around
>for a way to use a replacement Windows shell with
>Wine as my desktop environment instead of gnome
>or kde.
>
>So far, all the ones I've found are either broken, hard to use,
>or just plain weird.
>
>I've been working through the list at
>http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Microsoft_Windows/Software/Alternate_Shells/
>
>http://www.astonshell.com/aston/ - couldn't figure out how to run it?
>
>http://www.emergedesktop.org/ - kind of works, but very minimal, no start menu
>
>http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/rob/liteshell.html - works, but
>very minimal, no start menu
>
>http://purels.org - no help, just exits, saying "ha ha, you didn't
>configure me".  Obviously not meant for me :-)
>
>http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm - pretty, but no Programs menu?!
>(Maybe that's there but broken, wine bug?)
>
>http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/download.html - ROS explorer -
>prebuilt binary
>there is 3 years out of date, doesn't work too well
>
>Anyone have a favorite I should try?
>- Dan
>
>