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.
Another week and another Wine development release. What has version 1.3.9 spilt out over the tablecloth we call the desktop?
The weekly development release of Wine landed on Friday with the usual smattering of minor additions, bug fixes and improvements.
Bang on schedule the latest Wine development release is now available for download/installation. New features in this release include: – Improved system tray support Better support for installers with assemblies GStreamer support fixes Many MSXML […]
Nothing sucks more about running Wine applications in Ubuntu than the visual yell of "HEY! I'M NOT NATIVE!". The following tip is a quick and pain-free way to get Wine apps matching the look of the rest of your desktop.
Applications running in Wine more often than not look like second-class citizens. That's no way to experience your OS - we're put together five tips for getting Wine applications looking, feeling & behaving like everything else on your desktop. In this OMG! 5! we take a look at five ways to improve the look and feel of Wine in Ubuntu.
Joe Lawrence sent us over this incredibly simple yet worthwhile tip for avid Wine users. Sourced specifically because ‘cool menus’ such as Cardapio don’t let you run easily launch Wine applications. He’s already written it […]
The latest development version of Wine 1.3.x has been released. Wine 1.3.1 sees everyone’s favourite none-an-emulator add: – Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE. Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer. Beginnings of a […]
Google Picasa 3.8 was released yesterday to much online fanfare. A bunch of neat new features landed including: – Edit photos in Picnik directly from Picasa 3.8 Batch upload Photo properties and the show stealing […]
How does the thought of 211 completely free wine-compatible games available in one download, complete with slick launcher and per-game info, sound to you? Indulgent? Maybe. Worth downloading? Hell yes. Mega Games Pack The bundle […]
Wine 1.2 stable has finally been released today after more than two years of development. The release sees support for 64bit applications, new Tango-based icons (props to Joel Holdsworth who helped lead the work on […]
Y’know, now that Windows executables look all fancy with the latest Wine – making use of the inbuilt application icons – I can’t help but think that they make Ubuntu look worse. Why? Here goes… […]