Keeping people from trying iTunes in Wine?

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:59:32 -0700
Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> Watching Twitter, one fairly frequently seems people trying
> and failing to run iTunes 10 and the like in Wine.
> 
> Should we let them bash their heads against the wall like that?
> 
> Maybe we should detect the top ten apps that don't work
> with Wine, and put up a warning dialog saying they are
> known not to work, and people shouldn't try.
> (Kind of like what Windows 7 does when you do something
> dangerous, e.g. try to look at the contents of drive C:.)
> 
> 
Do you really want to prevent users from ever testing these apps in new versions of Wine, or trying to find workarounds? I do a fair amount of head-bashing myself, and I would find such a message patronizing and intrusive. 


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Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>