On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:59:32 -0700 > Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > >> Watching Twitter, one fairly frequently seems people trying >> and failing to run iTunes 10 and the like in Wine. >> >> Should we let them bash their heads against the wall like that? >> >> Maybe we should detect the top ten apps that don't work >> with Wine, and put up a warning dialog saying they are >> known not to work, and people shouldn't try. >> (Kind of like what Windows 7 does when you do something >> dangerous, e.g. try to look at the contents of drive C:.) >> >> > Do you really want to prevent users from ever testing these apps in new > versions of Wine, or trying to find workarounds? I do a fair amount of > head-bashing myself, and I would find such a message patronizing and > intrusive.
Agreed. Wine doesn't make efforts to babysit users for most other things, I don't see why this should be any different. Also consider that if such a workaround were to go into wine, that code may long outlive the 'affected apps', and the list would quickly grow out of date. I suppose if a packager wanted to do something like this for their distro I wouldn't complain too much, unless users started asking about it in #winehq/the forums. But this _should not_ go into vanilla wine. -- -Austin