Idea: WineLib based Window Manager

[Phil Costin]

Here's a thought that just hit me out of the blue; what if there were a
winelib based window manager / desktop environment?

It would be possible to use the wine look and feel to craft a familiar
looking and fast environment in which users can run their legacy Windows
apps and feel at home.

At the same time, the Programs menu could even be tied in
to .wine/drive_c/Program Files

Just an idea, not a request

Phil

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Phil Costin <[email protected]> wrote:

Here's a thought that just hit me out of the blue; what if there were a
winelib based window manager / desktop environment?

It would be possible to use the wine look and feel to craft a familiar
looking and fast environment in which users can run their legacy Windows
apps and feel at home.

At the same time, the Programs menu could even be tied in
to .wine/drive_c/Program Files

Just an idea, not a request

Phil

You mean something like windows explorer?

-Zach

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

well I never tried it, but couldn't you just run windows explorer.exe?
and if not why not?

Sam Fourman Jr.

[vitamin]

well I never tried it, but couldn't you just run windows explorer.exe?
and if not why not?

Sam Fourman Jr.

Why don't you try it and tell us how it went?

Hint: something about internal only not-documented, not-implemented, ms-specific functions....