After 15 years of development and 5 release candidates Wine is published today as 1.0. In the release candidate phase so many bugs were fixed and Wine runs really smooth now my favorite Windows apps. If you ever had problems with older versions of Wine you should give it a try again Read my post about the smoothest way getting you Windows app running too.
Wine 1.0 RC1 is now available for download. After 15 years of development it is planed to publish Wine on the 6th of June as final. Help the Wine project finding bugs and getting 1.0 stable. Here is a short howto:
* Make sure Wine 1.0 RC1 and your favorite Windows app are installed * Open a terminal and start your application with
* Check the output in the terminal and copy it per action via Ctrl+C into a text editor (an example http://www.neeneenee.de/wine_photoline1451.txt) * Go to the Wine bugtracker create a account or login * First make sure the bug isn't submited yet * If the bug exist create a comment and append a link to your textfile of the output
If you are missing features in Gimp and didn't like to pay a lot for Photoshop you should definitely tryout Photoline. It's powerfull and stable as Photoshop itself, has the best PSD file support i ever saw and it is really cheap. The only bad thing is you need Wine to get it running on Linux. At the moment i getting some problems with the icons of the toolbars and sometimes the cursor is not visible. I think this could be fixed soon when a new stable version of Wine is available. All about Photoline 14.51 can be found in the release notes. UPDATE: I added a bug report to the bugzilla of the Wine project.
Here is the summary of my talk about WINE at the Ubuntu Hardy Heron release party Berlin. It includes all links and describes the best way getting an app like Photoshop running smooth.
Yesterday i had my talk about Wine at the Ubuntu Hardy release party Berlin. There were a lot of other interesting talks too and i met very nice people interested in graphic design, web development and Wine (greetings to Marcus, Renee and Gabriel ). On some demo PC's i played around with Ubuntu Hardy Heron and i geting the feeling its very fast and runs much better then Gutsy did. Soon i will publish my talk about WINE and getting Windows software running here.
The last two versions of Wine 0.9.58 and 0.9.59 didn't work well with Photoshop CS, there are a lot of problems with Ctrl+Click (may selecting layer transparency) or Shift+Click (Wand tool). So i downgraded Wine to 0.9.57 which i downloaded from the archive and used
If you are missing features in Gimp and didn't like to pay a lot for Photoshop you should definitely tryout Photoline. It's powerfull and stable as Photoshop itself, has the best PSD file support i ever saw and it is really cheap. The only bad thing is you need Wine to get it running on Linux. All about Photoline 14.50 can be found in the release notes.
I discovered htis interesting video about Wine-Doors 0.2, which is a software management tool for Windows applications on top of Wine at the Gnome Desktop.
For supporting this simple way of installing the Internet Explorer the developers of Wine-Doors use code from the original IEs4Linux script.
The Wine development is fast these days, again a new version is available. The good news for design and 3d people are "Support for multiple OpenGL pixel formats" and "Improved support for color profiles". If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.
Google has hired Codeweavers, which are the leaders of the Wine project and offering commercial services around it. Codeweavers should add better support for Photoshop on Linux. Since Wine 0.9.54 there are much improvements that let running Photoshop CS2 under Wine. This patches has nice side effects, so Flash 8 is working well too. If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.
A new version of Wine is released, besides the usual fixes and D3D improvements it shipped with a better support for Photoshop CS2: "...Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it...". If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.
Jep, they did it again - a new Version of Wine is available. Again with improvements and bugfixes. Besides the added support for the "My Network Places" shell folder there are two things important for artists/ designers using Photoshop on Linux: * Improved graphics tablet support * Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues
The new release of XnView 1.92 is available. Improved features, more supported file formats and bugfixes, all in detail can be read here. It is a Windows application (the Linux version is outdated and got a ugly GUI) but with some tweaks and a actual release of Wine it runs perfect on Linux too. There are some tweaks for let it running smooth: * tell XnView in the options (F12) to use the registry for store settings (if not any settings get lost after closing XnView) * change the ugly Win95 colors of Wine by running the Wine registry editor and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors and setup the colors you like. You can tweak the GUI to give it the look of your desktop.
Wine was updated to version 0.9.49 and so i tried again running my favorite VRML/ X3D Viewer BS Contact. Guess what - right it seems to work now, just some minor limitations: * you have to use OpenGL hardware acceleration * Shaders didn't work * Only VRML code is working (seems to be a limitation of Wine using the M$ XML parser) * Antialiasing didn't work too * There is a termination message on exit
My system is: * Ubuntu 7.10/ Wine 0.9.49/ BS Contact VRML/X3D 7.039 * Gnome 2.20 Desktop using Compiz * Nvidia GS 8400 with nvidia-glx-new driver 100.14.19
XnView 1.91.6 is available. Again a release with bugfixes and improvements. Thanks to Pierre for this nice image viewer. It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Wine it runs perfect on Linux too. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) files (overall 400 formats supported). You can tweak the GUI to give it the look of your desktop.
XnView 1.91.5 is available. This is again a bugfix release of 1.91! It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats). You can tweak the GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.
And here is a new version of Wine again. This time it comes with important improvements for Photoshop CS2 and iTunes. If you using Ubuntu there is a reposotory and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version. You can tweak the GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.
XnView 1.91.2 is available. This is the 2nd bugfix release of 1.91! It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats). You can tweak the GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.
Yesterday i was on the Ubuntu usergroup meeting of ubuntuusers here in Berlin. As i saw anybody uses different kind of desktop systems: KDE, Wine, wxWidgets and of course Gnome. So how to get all these look like as one desktop? Ok, the wxWidgets look by default like your theme is setted up, so no need of customizing.
To setup your KDE/Qt inside Gnome:
you need to run "qtconfig-qt3" or ""qtconfig-qt4" at the commandline to setup any kind of QT app like Skype etc.; there you can setup the color for QT apps WYSIWYG
run "kcontrol" at the commandline to setup any kind KDE app, got to "Appereance" and there setup "Style" (use "Plastic"), "Colors", "Fonts" and "Icons" (install Tango and Tangerine icons for KDE); at KDE-look.org you will find different Ubuntu color themes too
if you using Wine at the first time you will be shocked of these very ugly Win95 colors; but you can change this by runing "winecfg" at the commandline; click on the tab "Desktop integration" in the dropdown "Element" you can setup the colors for the GUI elements.
At the moment Wine gets very slow using themes like Clearlooks or Human
After 15 years of development and 5 release candidates Wine is published today as 1.0. In the release candidate phase so many bugs were fixed and Wine runs really smooth now my favorite Windows apps. If you ever had problems with older versions of Wine you should give it a try again 
If you are missing features in Gimp and didn't like to pay a lot for Photoshop you should definitely tryout Photoline. It's powerfull and stable as Photoshop itself, has the best PSD file support i ever saw and it is really cheap.
Yesterday i had my talk about Wine at the Ubuntu Hardy release party Berlin. There were a lot of other interesting talks too and i met very nice people interested in graphic design, web development and Wine (greetings to Marcus, Renee and Gabriel 
The new release of
Wine was updated to version 0.9.49 and so i tried again running my favorite VRML/ X3D Viewer BS Contact. Guess what - right it seems to work now, just some minor limitations:
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