While scouting around for an appropriate place to put the hint about the
existance of "wine control", I realised there wasn't a section that
dealt with the really basic things. I answer questions on
linuxquestions.org and on IRC, and some of these things seem obvious to
us but to Wine newbies aren't.
Because of that, I added a small "Basic Usage" section in the "Running
Wine" part of the users guide. It talks about installing and uninstall
apps, and how to access the control panel.
To be honest I'm not really happy with parts of the wine users guide, it
really does need an overhaul before 0.9 is out. For instance, the first
section presents Wine as simply a convenience to avoid the need for
rebooting, rather than focussing on the IMO more important fact that
it's an actual replacement for Windows, and can integrate apps nicely.
Anyway, this is just a starter patch. If nobody objects, I might go
through and rewrite some other parts of the users guide to be more in
alignment with the sort of questions I see (and get from friends) all
the time.
ChangeLog:
- Added a "basic usage" section that deals with installation,
uninstallation and control panel applets to the "Running Wine" part of
the users guide.
thanks -mike
--
Mike Hearn <m.hearn@signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center
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<!entity name-tom-wickline "Tom Wickline">
<!entity email-tom-wickline "twickline2@triad.rr.com">
+<!entity name-mike-hearn "Mike Hearn">
+<!entity email-mike-hearn "mike@theoretic.com">
+
<!-- *** Coders mentioned in docs, but not doc writers *** -->
<!entity name-francis-beaudet "Francis Beaudet">
@@ -136,3 +139,4 @@
<!entity name-koen-deforche "Koen Deforche">
<!entity email-koen-deforche "jozef@kotnet.org">
+
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<para>
Written by &name-john-sheets; <email>&email-john-sheets;</email>
</para>
+ <para>
+ Extended by &name-mike-hearn; <email>&email-mike-hearn;</email>
+ </para>
+ <sect1 id="basic-usage">
+ <title>Basic usage: applications and control panel applets</title>
+ <para>
+ Assuming you are using a fake windows installation, you install
+ applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows:
+ by running the installer. You can just accept the defaults
+ for where to install, most installers will default to "C:\Program Files",
+ which is fine. If the application installer requests it, you may find that
+ Wine creates icons on your desktop and in your app menu. If that happens, you
+ can start the app by clicking on them.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The standard way to uninstall things is for the application to provide an
+ uninstaller, usually registered with the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel
+ applet. Unfortunately as of the time of writing, Wine doesn't provide an
+ Add/Remove control panel applet, so you'll have to run the uninstall manually, either
+ from the menu or from the command line.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Some programs install associated control panel applets, examples of this would be
+ Internet Explorer and QuickTime. You can access the Wine control panel by running:
+ </para>
+
+ <screen>
+ <prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>wine control</userinput>
+ </screen>
+
+ <para>
+ which will open a window with the installed control panel applets in it, as in Windows.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If the application doesn't install menu or desktop items, you'll need to run the app
+ from the command line. Remembering where you installed to, something like:
+ </para>
+
+ <screen>
+ <prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>wine "c:\program files\appname\appname.exe"</userinput>
+ </screen>
+
+ <para>
+ will probably do the trick. The path isn't case sensitive, but remember to include the double quotes.
+ Some programs don't always use obvious naming for their directories and EXE files, so you might have
+ to look inside the program files directory to see what it put where
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="running-wine">
<title>How to run Wine</title>
<para>
