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Kongrats!!
by Rajan Rishyakaran on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @00:33

This is wonderful. But i hope the following features would be implemented.

- WINE support
Well, wouldn't it be nice to hover a .exe made for windows icon in konqi and right click it, select "Windows application" and it would open in WINE from that day onwards in Konqi, KMenu and Kicker and ofcourse, the desktop!

- Better GNOME and Motif support
There is a lot of GTK and Motif apps around. I don't use GNOME, so possibly KDE can apply themes on GTK and Motif (on user demand). This is because my Netscape window (not the title bar :) look different than my GIMP window which looks different from the rest of the desktop.

- Use Gecko in Konqueror.
Yes i know there is KMozilla, but i want to use Gecko in my fave file manager. So Konqi team should put an option for users to choice between Gecko and KHTML. At least Konqi users don't have to suffer from KHTML setbacks.

Best of luck to you guys. Wish you all developers good health and God bless!

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Re: Kongrats!!
by Psidekick on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @01:44

I thought that Codeweaver's WINE bundle already did what you're asking for.

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KDE and wine :)
by kde user on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @01:51

Just define new application shortcut (.desktop file) which executes wine, than (if not defined) define mime type for .exe files and than let newly created application for wine (you may call it Windows Application.desctop) to be default application for the .exe mimetype.
That's all you need to make konqui to open .exe with wind :) (ofcorse the distro could do it for your self)

Also about the KDE support for wine, I must tell ya that wine supports kde :) because the windows icons of apps appear correctly in kicker, even apps that use systray icons appear in kicker system tray :)

About the shortcuts in KDE start menu you can simly create .desctop file and place it in your users home or global KDE menu dir. The shortcut command line should be comething like:
wine fullpath_of_windows_app
e.g.
wine /mnt/win_C/Windows/notepad.exe

enjoy :)

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Re: Kongrats!!
by yves on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @02:26

- WINE support
Well, wouldn't it be nice to hover a .exe made for windows icon in konqi and right click it, select "Windows application" and it would open in WINE from that day onwards in Konqi, KMenu and Kicker and ofcourse, the desktop!

Well I have it in 2.2. RMB on a .exe shows a "Wine" entry
that runs the app through wine

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