Wine issue

[Dwindle]

For the third time, I have installed wine without getting it to work.
It seems to be installed fine, but when I add programs to it under "applications". nothing becomes of them. They are not in the wine menu, and when I go back into the config page, they are not there.

I have tried WinZip (the demo recommended) and Irfanview, the program I can't live without.

I'm not getting any error messages.

[arochester]

Re: Wine issue

I didn't want to install Irfanview (honest) - but I read on a blog that someone couldn't install it under Wine and (being perverse) I wanted to try. When I did install it I couldn't understand what the fuss was about. Gthumb and other Linux equivalents are just as good.

1) There is a huge (sometimes angry) debate which rages about the use of Automatix2. Some people say DON'T use it and some people DO use it. I have used it in the past and have never had any significant problems. It does automatically install Wine... ( I also liked a website called Dave's Corner but it seems to have disappeared)

2) I found that I could not install Irfanview under straight Wine. For some reason it did run when I installed Wine-Doors. There is little logic to that because Wine-Doors enables you to install NAMED programs under Wine - and Irfanview is NOT one of those named programs...but it installed and ran...

3) I have also experimented with PlayOnLinux. When I first tried it was in French and had to be changed to English.

I think that there is plain Wine, Wine-Doors adds a little extra (like Wine+) and PlayOnLinux adds a bit more (like Wine++)

[Dwindle]

Re: Wine issue

Hmm. I was hoping such a small and simple application would be easy.

I like Irfanview because if I open an image or movie, it stretches it to full screen, flips through files with the arrow keys, and when I hit escape the program shuts down entirely.

It loads and image or video clip in under a second, and if all I want to do is view an image, I never see the application or even any of its buttons or toolbars at all.

I could live without many of it's options like the photo shop filters and things like batch resample, multiple scan, and contact sheets.

The smooth fade in/fade out transition from one image to another would be missed, though.

Can you think of an imaging program that will open in full screen, and disappear when exited?

I hate programs that resize the image without resampling, or full screen without resizing to the window size. I'd also rather it have no tool bars or buttons when viewing.