Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

[Dan Kegel]

Great!  If Scott does the same for Ubuntu, it'll simplify
my CeBit presentation.  Currently I have to dance
around explaining how to get winetricks... if it's
right there in the menus, the presentation will flow
better.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:23 AM, marco <marco at mandrivaclub.nl> wrote:
> A menu item is added for mandriva
> and dependencies are added.
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> and will be active for the next version 1.1.16
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> Marco
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> Dan Kegel schreef:
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>> So, for people packaging wine, here's a proposed plan:
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>> 0. See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks if you're not familiar with
>> winetricks
>>
>> 1. Download http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
>> (or get it via svn, see http://code.google.com/p/winezeug )
>> It's a monolithic shell script, so you don't need to compile it or
>> anything.
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>> 2. Move it to /usr/bin and do chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks
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>> 3. Add a dependecy on cabextract, sha1sum, and wget or curl.
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>> 4. In your package's changelog, note which version of Winetricks
>> you pulled down.  You'll want to pull down a fresh one every time
>> you package Wine, as it contains download URLs that occasionally
>> go stale. (In particular, I need to update the gecko URL for wine-1.1.5,
>> I'll do that today.)
>>
>> The Suse packages already do all the above steps, I think;
>> you might ask Marcus Meissner if you want to confirm the details.
>>
>> Here's the part that I don't think anybody does yet:
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>> 5. Add a menu item under Applications / Wine that runs
>> /usr/bin/winetricks.
>> In Ubuntu, the existing menu items are
>>  Programs
>>  Browse C: Drive
>>  Configure Wine
>>  Uninstall Wine Software
>> Assuming we name the menu item Winetricks, the menu would then look like
>>  Programs
>>  Browse C: Drive
>>  Configure Wine
>>  Uninstall Wine Software
>>  Winetricks
>>
>> Now, at some point we should come up with a better menu item name
>> than Winetricks, but I have no idea how to sum it up properly.
>> winetricks has a fair bit of name recognition, and requires no
>> localization, so let's run with that name until we figure out
>> what it should really be called, and what the GUI really
>> should look like in the end.
>>
>> (We also need a menu item there for "Help Using Wine", but
>> nobody's written that yet.  It can't just be links to the FAQ,
>> since it has to work while offline.)
>>
>> Sound good?
>> - Dan
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