Proposal: put Winetricks into Wine menu

[Scott Ritchie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> I know, when I wrote Winetricks, I meant it as a developers'
> tool only.  But... then... people started using it, and
> it made sense to provide it as a way to download missing
> visual C++ runtimes etc. for average users.
> 
> Quite a few newbies trip over the fact that it
> needs cabextract installed.  Let's make it easy
> for folks, actually package it up along with
> Wine (SuSE does this already), and put it
> in the Wine menu right beneath "Uninstall Windows Software".
> 
> What do people think?  It might make life easier for a lot of folks.
> 

I want to cut down on the number of items in the menu as it is - winecfg
will be integrated into a System -> Preferences -> Windows Applications
menu, browse C:\ drive will be in Places, and uninstall would go into
Applications->Add/Remove.

Once that's done, leaving winetricks in the menu would be out of place.
 Though maybe it could go into the same System -> Preferences -> Windows


> (And, come to think of it, we should include some documentation
> in that menu.  "man wine" just doesn't cut it for the average
> gui user, and "wine manual page" in the gnome
> help browser is a broken link.  But that's a separate issue.)
> - Dan
> 

There's already a help feature in the distribution right next to the
menu - we should provide documentation there and avoid clutter.


Thanks,
Scott Ritchie