Integrate Wine in Ubuntu with ‘Vineyard’

By , Published December 29, 2010

Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have – and we can thanks to an application called ‘Vineyard‘.

Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.

It’s a been a while since we last mentioned Vineyard here on OMG! Ubuntu! (9 months in fact!) so  in that intervening time the developer, Christian, has spent a lot of time working on it.

Having been totally rewritten the app now boasts even tighter Ubuntu-integration and a host of new features, including: -

  • Integration with Nautilus
  • Faster reading/saving of Wine settings
  • Indicator applet

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  • Winetricks integration
  • Pre-installation of support packages when double-clicking an exe
  • New configuration options
  • Integration with WineHQ’s AppDB
  • Better compatibility with older Windows programs
  • Direct ISO/BIN/NRG/IMG/MDF support for drives
  • Enhanced library overrides (not just on/off)
  • Bug fixes, improved stability, speed and compatibility

Download

As Vineyard is currently in beta testing installation is not recommended for casual users. Those confident enough in using beta software can install using the .deb packages below or by adding the Vineyard testing PPA (recommended).

Vineyard 0.1.5 Beta is available for Karmic, Lucid and Maverick users.

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  3. Integrating Wine Into Ubuntu With Vineyard
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  • https://launchpad.net/~mike-htwins Fuchsiania

    The icon could be a little bit more… iconic.

    • http://snkiz.blogspot.com/ Corey B

      Funny some icons don’t translate well monoized and scaled to 20 px. I think its a bunch of grapes

      • https://launchpad.net/~and471 Andrew

        I must be very immature, because when I look at that icon, I don’t see grapes XD

        • http://twitter.com/randomgc Giulio Collura

          It depends on what of imagination you have XD

        • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

          I usually see it as an acorn, but I have no idea what else it could look like… a chubby South America?

          • Eugeny

            Someone HAS to say that! It looks like a _dick_.

          • Eugeny

            Someone HAS to say that! It looks like a _dick_.

          • http://twitter.com/daekdroom Marcos Vinícius

            It looks like a mouse, for sure

      • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

        It is indeed a bunch of grapes – with a leaf on top to make it a vine.
        Submissions for replacement icons are very, very welcome.

    • Chris Nichols

      Perhaps a similar icon to the one used by the winehq website would be a better idea. At least then you can discern what it is when scaled down and monoized.

      • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

        That would certainly scale better, but I’d like to keep Vineyard’s own identity throughout the design. Not only to make sure people know what it is that’s running in their indicator-applet but also to make sure that no stray bug reports, that should have gone to me, are going to bug the busy Wine developers.

        However, since the indicator is a place for _programs_ to show themselves, it could diverge a bit from the cluster of grapes logo Vineyard’s using.

        Maybe a grape and a leaf, or something similar?

        Again, suggestions, contributions or down right replacements are very welcome.

    • https://launchpad.net/~cscarney ~cscarney

      How about something like this instead?

      For dark panels: http://ubuntuone.com/p/VyP/
      For light panels: http://ubuntuone.com/p/VyQ/

      • Chris Nichols

        Now THAT is more like it. :D

      • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

        Very nice! Thanks!
        The leaf on top is a bit small though, any chance that could be made bigger?
        Otherwise near perfect!

        • https://launchpad.net/~cscarney ~cscarney
          • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

            Excellent! Would you mind if I include those icons in the next release?

          • https://launchpad.net/~cscarney ~cscarney

            No problem.

  • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

    Actually these beta testing releases are usually more stable than the last stable release, so feel free to use them – but yes, technically Vineyard is still in beta.
    Also, please do file bug reports if you stumble onto anything weird.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ON6CS3UJOSXBQ7RM3LUWAERN2A d4rk_l1gh7

      Is that some evil plan to get us to test the software out just so we can report bugs?… Just kidding.

      And will try, it does look promising.

      • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

        Indeed it is… muhahaha!
        Actually the betas are my way of posting the version I use in my daily workflow, but it’s moving fast enough that I can’t guarantee that it tested enough to live up to the name “stable”.
        Also, the underlying python-wine library is changing API (even if just slightly) along with the betas and is therefore by definition not stable.

        Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    When I saw “integration” I thought: Hey, native cursors, maybe? Someday maybe, But not yet.

    • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

      That should have been implemented in Wine 1.3.6, have you tried that version or newer?

      • Anonymous

        I had no idea! Thank you!!

        • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

          Don’t thank me, thank the Wine team ;)

  • Anonymous

    I’m confused by the screenshot – where do we get this indicator?

    • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

      The indicator is activated by running vineyard-indicator, either by adding it to your Startup Programs or by manually running it.
      It only tracks Windows programs launched by Vineyard so far, but will in the future also let you kill Windows programs launched by Wine (but won’t show their log).

  • http://www.facebook.com/pimarcha Pablo Marchant

    At this rate, a new partner site of omgubuntu called omgindicator is bound to appear…and then the posting rate here will be dropped by half…

  • http://twitter.com/larryfroot Larry McCauley

    how about a vine leaf, with a little flourish, a la William Morris? Even if people don’t know what a vine leaf looks like, they will put 2 and 2 together so quickly it would scarce register as a calculation.

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/zzarko Zarko

    I ran vineyard-indicator in the command line, but nothing was added to indicator applet. There is no any error output from console, and all I can do is CTRL+C. I installed from repository. Did someone had something like this? I guess I’m doing something wrong, as lot of people are running it…

    • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

      Nope, you’re not doing anything wrong :)
      vineyard-indicator will only show itself when you are running a Windows program, and from the indicator you can then see how long the program has been running and in which configuration, check it’s log and kill it if you want.
      It’s not meant to be run from an interactive console though, so I’d recommend launching it through the Alt+F2 (or similar) run dialog or add it to your startup applications.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6FMILMZXICI3F2VGRTS63B26I sleep

    Will having PlayonLinux, instead of just WINE, bugger things up?

    • http://cybolic.wordpress.com/ Cybolic

      The two programs should work just fine together, though right now they can’t share prefixes/bottles/configurations – the upcoming version of Vineyard supports the unified prefix format (that winetricks might support as well at some point) so if PlayonLinux picks that up as well, they’ll be able to share prefixes.

 
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