Great! If Scott does the same for Ubuntu, it'll simplify my CeBit presentation. Currently I have to dance around explaining how to get winetricks... if it's right there in the menus, the presentation will flow better.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:23 AM, marco <ma...@mandrivaclub.nl> wrote: > A menu item is added for mandriva > and dependencies are added. > > and will be active for the next version 1.1.16 > > Marco > > > Dan Kegel schreef: >> >> So, for people packaging wine, here's a proposed plan: >> >> 0. See http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks if you're not familiar with >> winetricks >> >> 1. Download http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks >> (or get it via svn, see http://code.google.com/p/winezeug ) >> It's a monolithic shell script, so you don't need to compile it or >> anything. >> >> 2. Move it to /usr/bin and do chmod +x /usr/bin/winetricks >> >> 3. Add a dependecy on cabextract, sha1sum, and wget or curl. >> >> 4. In your package's changelog, note which version of Winetricks >> you pulled down. You'll want to pull down a fresh one every time >> you package Wine, as it contains download URLs that occasionally >> go stale. (In particular, I need to update the gecko URL for wine-1.1.5, >> I'll do that today.) >> >> The Suse packages already do all the above steps, I think; >> you might ask Marcus Meissner if you want to confirm the details. >> >> Here's the part that I don't think anybody does yet: >> >> 5. Add a menu item under Applications / Wine that runs >> /usr/bin/winetricks. >> In Ubuntu, the existing menu items are >> Programs >> Browse C: Drive >> Configure Wine >> Uninstall Wine Software >> Assuming we name the menu item Winetricks, the menu would then look like >> Programs >> Browse C: Drive >> Configure Wine >> Uninstall Wine Software >> Winetricks >> >> Now, at some point we should come up with a better menu item name >> than Winetricks, but I have no idea how to sum it up properly. >> winetricks has a fair bit of name recognition, and requires no >> localization, so let's run with that name until we figure out >> what it should really be called, and what the GUI really >> should look like in the end. >> >> (We also need a menu item there for "Help Using Wine", but >> nobody's written that yet. It can't just be links to the FAQ, >> since it has to work while offline.) >> >> Sound good? >> - Dan >> >> > >