Wine activity

[Wade Brainerd]

Has anyone considered doing a scan of download.com and similar sites for
small, free educational software for Windows, and then bundling them with
this Wine activity?

I'm the author of CueCard, which is a flash card training program for
Windows.  I have tested and it works great under Vincent's Wine activity.  I
know there are lots of other free, simple educational programs for Windows
and it would be great to be able to offer a 'Wine bundle' activity with a
bunch of them pre-installed.

I think deployments ought to consider this as well.  They can think of it as
"Windows training" for their students :)

-Wade

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> A popular program that has been requested a few times via Wine is
> Let's Go for english learning.
> This activity definitely needs its own section on
> wiki.laptop.org/go/Wine ...  SJ
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler <bsittler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > That's awesome work! I was able to install Wine and use it, including
> > firefox and a win32 application I had previously build using mingw32
> > under Linux on another PC and uploaded to a webserver, and then
> > downloaded using firefox inside wine. However, I did notice the
> > following oddities:
> >
> > 1. When I later resumed the activity from the journal, the wallpaper
> > was gone and nothing worked, although the start-menu items for firefox
> > were still there.
> >
> > 2. It was not clear to me how to save wine's state to the journal.
> >
> > 3. At some point the usual 'leave full-screen mode' icon appeared in
> > the upper-right corner, but clicking it seemed to have no effect other
> > than to make it disappear, i.e. no sugar UI appeared and the desktop
> > size did not change.
> >
> > 4. Wine crashed when I used Firefox's download manager to open the
> > location of a downloaded file (winefile appeared briefly, then the
> > whole activity crashed.) I have no idea why yet, but perhaps there is
> > some information left in a log file somewhere I will find.
> >
> > On the bright side, this means it's fairly trivial to run at least
> > some "windows-only" software on the OLPC now, which is great when
> > there's not yet a Sugar or Linux version.
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Vincent Povirk
> > <madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com <madewokherd%2B8cd9 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> The Wine activity has advanced to the point where I think it's ready
> >> for testing by actual users.
> >>
> >> The current package, development history, and my todo list are at
> >> http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine
> >>
> >> The intent of this project is to provide a shell that can be used to
> >> run Windows programs using Wine in the Sugar environment. It should be
> >> good enough that someone used to Windows can grab and install a
> >> Windows program without help, once the activity is installed. Ideally,
> >> the installer and software will both work fine in Wine and within the
> >> hardware limitations of an XO. In this ideal case, someone used to
> >> Windows should be able to operate it without help.
> >>
> >> If it does not live up to this ideal for platinum software (according
> >> to the Wine appdb) whose hardware requirements the XO meets, I want to
> >> know about it and hopefully fix it.
> >>
> >> Wine bugs and hardware limitations mean a lot of Windows programs
> >> won't work or won't work properly. On Linux, one can often push the
> >> compatibility much further than what works "out of the box" by looking
> >> at console messages (the log viewer works for this) and tweaking Wine.
> >> Don't expect everything to work perfectly, but don't give up if it
> >> doesn't. This is normal, even on Linux.
> >>
> >> Winehq.org has support channels for such cases (appdb, bugzilla,
> >> mailing lists, and the winehq irc channel). Most of the people there
> >> probably don't know anything about Sugared Wine, but collectively they
> >> should know more than I do about making Wine work in general. If a
> >> program doesn't work for you, you can go to any of those places for
> >> support. You can also email sugaredwine at codeweavers.com. That goes
> >> directly to me for now, but in the future (maybe the very near future)
> >> I may decide to send it somewhere public, like a mailing list,
> >> instead.
> >>
> >> Wine and the code that I developed for this project are licensed under
> >> the GNU LGPL. The entire package isn't quite LGPL because I included
> >> 7-zip. 7-zip is LGPL + unRAR restriction (you're not allowed to use
> >> the source code to create a RAR compressor).
> >>
> >> If you have a program that works well in this Wine package and would
> >> like to package it as a stand-alone .xo, please let me know. I already
> >> did most of the work for this so that I could include 7-zip and a
> >> firefox downloader/installer (and I could probably have included
> >> firefox itself if not for the fact that it would require uploading
> >> non-open-source code to repo.or.cz).
> >>
> >> Vincent Povirk
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