I can say that I was amazed when I tried it. I have Windows and Linux on my home computer and use Linux 90% of the time. I use the portable apps all the time at work which is obviously a Windows machine and when I come home I figured I had to use Windows to access it. So this evening I right clicked the Portable apps icon on my flash drive and selected Open with and typed "Wine" and to my surprise up came the Portable apps menu. I could not be more happy this is great that it works from Linux which is the system I prefer. I used mine with PCLinuxOS has anyone else tried this with other versions of Linux? If not you should.
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Most of the apps will work under Wine. The portable launchers (like FirefoxPortable.exe) are designed to work under Wine (working around some Wine bugs like copying multiple directories when setting up default settings, etc). The Menu and backup are fully compatible. Other apps vary a bit... some have visual bugs (fonts in Firefox)... some only partially work (Audacity can open, save, convert but not play)... some won't work at all (Gaim, GIMP, etc). But what I can do in the launchers to make them work in Wine, I do. I test them all with Wine running under Ubuntu. It's a part of my test suite which involves Windows 95 through Vista as well.
You can see the full matrix on what works in Wine on the Application Compatibilty page.
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Never seen that before.
*stares evily at John for (probably) adding a page without letting it be know on the tracker* }:)
Also to note, the only ones that work flawlessly on (almost) all Windows systems are the GTK based ones
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Actually, none of the GTK-based apps (Gaim, GIMP, etc) will work at all under Wine within a standard Linux install. I *think* they'll work if you install the standard Windows fonts in Linux, but I'm not sure.
The app compatibility page has been up for a while (months), but I haven't figured out where to link to it from... probably the main apps page. Only forum posts appear in the tracker these days.
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I meant with Windows. There are no exceptions or conditions.
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Ryan McCue
Santa: Ho Ho Ho!
Kim: Yes, thank you Santa, I am.
(Kath and Kim)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I had the same happy experience some weeks ago and was thrilled, too.
I used SuSE 10.1 and everything worked flawlessly; now I use 10.2 and wine keeps crashing...
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Hey John, since I can run the menu under Linux (with WINE), how can I add apps to the menu? I'm talking about having PAM as my main menu and adding my linux programs to it. Is it possible?
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Wine apps can't run native apps to my knowledge.
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