On Friday 14 March 2008, Dan Kegel wrote: > On 3/13/08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 March 2008, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > Johnnie, ideally, you can just doubleclick on your app's > > > setup.exe just as you would in windows. (Or at least right > > > click "run with wine"). Give it a try. > > > > Dan, I was under the impression that that technique was heavily > > frowned upon by the wine devs and were trying to get distro > > packagers to knock it off? > > Nope. It's what users expect, so it ought to work. Where > did you hear it was deprecated? > - Dan Here: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-fb882e4837335c61f88ad3d7c37503c483bb9aaf Perhaps not deprecated, just discouraged. It's an interesting question though - you probably don't want the user to double click an installed app in .wine/drive_c/Program Files - there should be a .desktop for that. But you probably DO want exactly that to happen if the .exe is an installer on an install CD. How to tell them apart? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
