q4wine :: news about q4wine development stuff and its community life.

Description

Q4Wine is a qt4[1] GUI for W.I.N.E.[2] It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications. It currently support for both Linux and FreeBSD platforms.

Q4Wine was initially written by Alexey S. Malakhov aka John Brezerk. General idea comes from WineTools scripts which were initially written by Frank Hendriksen.

General features are:

Can export QT color theme into wine colors settings.
Can easy work with different wine versions at same time;
Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX);
Easy controlling for wine process;
Autostart icons support;
Easy cd-image use;
You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes.
Winetriks support.
And more... Explore it! ;)

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Bug tracker has been moved to github

Publication date: 24 Apr 2012

Hi All.

Due to mass spam on SF I suggest to move q4wine issue and support tracker to a new location: https://github.com/brezerk/q4wine/issues

Note: Tracker on SF will be closed and removed soon!

0.121 release

Publication date: 13 Jun 2011

Hi to all.

Here it is time for new q4wine release tagged by 0.121 version.

Changes since 0.121 are:

Added:

updated winetricks plugin;
option to make Prefix view unexpanded at startup;
Polish translation by Frank (nobange);
interoperability of wineprefixes between q4wine, wibom, vineyard, and winetricks (and maybe playonlinux) BottleSpec;
German translation by Ron;
experimental build support for Mac OS X;
extended virtual desktop resolution list [3150062];
request for language locale support [3144001 and 3149056];
Hebrew translation by Yaron Shahrabani;
Prefix alphabetic sort;

Fixed:

build on FreeBSD;
removed embedded fuseiso support (q4wine-mount);

Released sources and packages are available in our downloads page.

0.120-r1 bug-fix release

Publication date: 28 Dec 2010

q4wine 0.120-r1 released

Hi to all.

Here it is time for new q4wine release tagged by 0.120-r1 version.

Unfortunately, due to lack of free time, many planned features was not implemented and targeted for next release;

Changes since 0.120 are:

Added:

q4wine now will create new symlinks when mounting $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/${DRIVE}: pointing to the mount point and $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/${DRIVE}:: pointing to the Image file; Apparently this is needed so that the images are recognized as a proper cd/dvd drive; (thx to patch by aleric)
Added cmake option WITH_SYSTEM_SINGLEAPP to compile q4wine with system installed QtSingleAppliaction library;
Added cmake option RELEASE for translation and developing purposes;
Added cmake option LINGUAS which specify languages to build;
"make translations" target; Use it for translation updates;
Added cmake option LIBS_ENTRY_PATH to allow override for libs install directory;
Implementation for feature request 3079649 (Prefixes list sorting);

Fixed:

mount images in read only mode (ro); by aleric
removed media drive option in prefix settings dialog;
Fixed quote bugs for WINEDEBUG and DISPLAY variables, reported by Carlos Ignacio Ruax;
English fixes by Steven Panek;
Fake drive can create unlinked desktop folders;
Move File System item upper in Fake Drive Settings dialog;

Released sources and packages are available in our downloads page.

Thanks for using q4wine, and Happy New Year to all! :]

Packages for Fedora distribution.

Publication date: 13 Nov 2010

Thanks to Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich q4wine packages are available in official repositories of Fedora distribution. Packages are available for 12, 13 and 14 Fedora releases.

0.120 release

Publication date: 01 Oct 2010

Hi to all.

Here it is time for new q4wine release tagged by 0.120 version.

Changes since 0.119 are:

Added:

Added Czech translation (thx to Pavel Fric);
Added cmake option MANPAGE_ENTRY_PATH;
User now can open system terminal from q4wine programs tab menu for selected directory;
Winetriks plug-in updates;
Added minimize to tray at startup option;
Added minimize to tray at application icon startup option;
DBUS notification;
Added Wine WOW64Node support and configuration settings;

Fixed:

warning: ignoring return value of ‘int chdir(const char*)’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result;
Fixed unescaped characters in q4wine-helper (q4wine-Bugs-3059156);
Fixed run dialog bug for gut trunk (q4wine-Bugs-3075628);
Fixed bug in q4wine-helper while run games like: Fallout 12, Truck Simulator e.t.c.
Fixed some typo and gui layouts;
Fixed fakedrivesettings.cpp rewrite sh scripts in to C++Qt code;
FreeBSD: report error while can't read process info from /proc fs;
Fixed $HOME/.config/q4wine/tmp not required any more, we use $WINEPREFIX/tmp instead;
Desktop file updates;

Released sources and packages are available in our downloads page.