On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Kai Blin wrote: > > Szabolcs, the biggest reason why we don't tell people to run applications > from an NTFS partition is not strictly a technical one but just the fact > that people then try to run applications they installed under windows. > This will fail for almost every application that depends on certain > registry entries being created by the install process.
Thank you for the explanation. Could the windows registry entries be mapped to the one wine needs? I guess nobody expects instant 100% success but if the most important ones could cover over 90% of the apps then that could be a decent start and worth improving and maintaining in the future. Unfortunately the only feedback which arrives to us is that wine users are annoyed/confused by the separate installation for wine. Apparently this is a major wine usability and adaption problem. Best regards, Szaka -- NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org