[Wine] Re: The single major remaining Wine complaint everyone makes...

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Let's take Trados for instance. It will be very much an headache in the couple of months to get everything right. It's a .NET application, running VBA, C++ and using Internet Explorer (aside for connection issues only the programmers know why).

Now there is a nice tool developed by the Mono team for softwares compiled using visual studio.
Making it Linux or Mac native would probably mean amongst other to compile it using the compiling utility of Mono instead of Visual Studio, to replace Internet Explorer with Gecko and to rewrite all macros to run with Open Office instead of Word, deliver it with JRE for Linux/Mac + use the natives C++ libraries of Linux/Mac.

Will the vendor do it until there is a return of investment for it? Let alone maybe that they are not experienced in writing for so many open source applications.

Then it will run native and stop being ugly. Even if all buttons were resizable, you will never be able to hide from an experienced user that it was made for Windows (at the latest when it crash and it ask you if you want to send an error message to microsoft).