--- "Gregory M. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a certain logic to this arrangement imo... who wants some > wacky > "explorer.exe" if they are simply thumbing through the kde or gnome > menus? > Not that I disapprove of ros explorer, quite the contrary! ros > explorer > approximates the behavior of windows explorer, which wine needs for a > number > of reasons, not the least of which is that it's an integral part of > the OS... > whereas I think Robert van Herk means to create a bridge or portal > allowing > native frameworks like gnome to integrate the wine menus into their > own...
Your right Greg. I for one want to be able to run KDE or GNOME and still have my WINE applications integrate cleanly. We do need some sort of a bridge on the Unix side for the Window manager. Any such interface that is developed needs to be a external application that sits in the middle of WINE and the WM. Any such application need to use the interfaces provided by shell32 and the shell namespace. I am thinking like SGI file access notification program they wrote that is used in natulas. libFAM isnt it? Also this application cant rob CodeWeavers of too much money. =) > Correct me if I have this all wrong of course :P But if that's the > case then > it's a different animal from ros explorer, and imo a worthwhile > effort. Right. The ReactOS explorer is a very limited purpose application. If I was going to be running nothing but Windows applications I could see how it might be of use to me under Linux. I dont know if the "Desktop" option still exists in WINE but it would be nice to have ros-explorer when running WINE in desktop mode under Linux. The I could just run all of my Win32 apps from one place. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com