Wine frontend: Swine

dswd · Post by **dswd** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:11 am

Hi all,

I am developing a wine frontend called "Swine":

Swine is a graphical wine frontend, that makes it easy to install and run Windows software on Linux systems. Swine uses a modern QT4 interface to offer most of the wine command-line tools to users.

Swine manages different Windows installations using the Wine-Prefix method. Different software can be installed in separate slots which makes the maintenance much easier. Different slots can emulate different Windows versions and have different libraries installed. This is especially handy for software that needs a highly customized environment (e.g. games).

For each slot, Swine manages a list of shortcuts to Windows programs. Users can create shortcuts for commonly used programs including a working directory and arguments.

Swine is available as open source via http://www.swine-tool.de.

Please feel free to test and use Swine as you wish. Contributions in form of source code, translations etc. are also very welcome.

Disclaimer: Do not report problems with Swine to the wine project. (Report the issue on the Swine github page instead.) If you have a problem with a program, please test it without Swine first before reporting the issue to the wine developers.

J V · Post by **J V** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:46 am

Looks nice and clean, but what's wrong with PlayOnLinux?

dswd · Post by **dswd** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:02 am

I started developing Swine in 2005 with some friends when I wanted to have graphical frontend for wine. I am not sure if POL existed at that time, at least I was not aware of it.
I think POL is more focused on installing software that needs a special setup while the focus of Swine is more on exposing existing wine tools in a GUI.
Anyhow, I wanted to publish Swine so users can choose.

J V · Post by **J V** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:31 am

Well I'd definitely choose yours, POL is a tad unstable for my wishes, and the scripts only work half the time.

But it's moot because I have my own bash script setup to handle this stuff ;P

qparis · Post by **qparis** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:16 am

J V wrote:Well I'd definitely choose yours, POL is a tad unstable for my wishes, and the scripts only work half the time.

But it's moot because I have my own bash script setup to handle this stuff ;P

Just report bugs in that case, and scripts will be fixed.

Good luck for your project. What are the differences between q4wine ?

trycatch · Post by **trycatch** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:59 pm

Hmm, don't work for me in Ubuntu 12.04. Writes

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Loading winetricks entries...
Command failed: None

It seems that "winetricks list" (winetricks 20120308) returns 1, while its exit looks graceful, and Swine doesn't start.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:52 pm

trycatch wrote:Hmm, don't work for me in Ubuntu 12.04.

Didn't you see the disclaimer at the top?

Thanks for announcement. Topic closed.