MOTU application for Scott Ritchie (third)

[Daniel Holbach]

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Scott Ritchie schrieb:
> I subscribe to the Debian bug list for their Wine package, and Ove (the
> maintainer) occasionally shows up on WineHQ's bugzilla as well.
> 
> Most of the Debian changes are fairly Debian specific - they have a
> different version of ia32-libs, for instance, so they can't use all of
> the links we provide.  The Debian packages also differ in substantial
> usability ways (other than .desktop files) - for instance they use the
> old winelauncher program rather than just directly invoking packages
> with Wine.
> 
> The winelauncher program pops up a window saying that "Wine is now
> running your application" - or, if you just run wine, that "You have
> invoked Wine without an argument."  It's something I disagree with,
> largely because the question of "how do I run Wine" is answered better
> by the applications menu entry.  The winelauncher program doesn't really
> add any usability, since the user doesn't really need to know that Wine
> in particular is running their application; moreover, it looks pretty
> intimidating.
> 
> Other things (eg a workaround for the same fontforge regression) have
> been included within Ubuntu Wine.

That sounds excellent.

+1 from me.

Have a nice day,
 Daniel

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