Moving Forward in Ubuntu (Wine, Debian and Universe)

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:04:40 +0000, Olafur Arason wrote:
> But some really useful things like a gtk file selector, gtk 
> configuration tool, mozilla plug in ala codeweavers plug in and possible
> a gtk theme would to wonders for windows program integration.

That isn't true, we're very interested in better desktop integration and
have done a fair bit of work on it. However, we're constrained by the
limits of the Win32 API. In particular it is not possible to replace file
selectors because applications depend on them looking a particular way
(the API is like the old GTK 1.2 one, you can directly poke the widgets).
That's why the dialog hasn't been significantly changed since Windows 95.

GTK config tool - we have a Winelib based tool. I did ask for it to be
GTK+ based when we were first developing it, but this would have given
Wine an extra dependency when we already ship our own toolkit.

GTK based theming is possible, and will probably be done at some point.
It's just a lot of work.

thanks -mike