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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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v0.119-rc1 release candidate

Publication date: 14 Jun 2010

Hi to all.

Here it is new q4wine release candidate tagged by 0.119 version.

Current release goals are:

New fake drive settings dialog (Wizard style goes away);
Sync fake drive settings to head wine version;
Import for wine desktop icons;
Winetriks plugin improvement;
New settings dialog;
Various user interface enhancement;

We have one week for translation update and bugs hunting, before 0.119 will be released;

You can get q4wine from git or download it from source forge mirror.

v0.118 release

Publication date: 15 Apr 2010

Hi to All!

It is time for new q4wine release tagged by 0.118 version.

I'd like to introduce new Wine AppDB browser engine, new helper which allows to trace wine app status, and more.

ChangeLog:

Wine AppDB support;
Helper binary and Application logger subsystem;
A lot of GUI improvements;
You can mount iso images just by droping them into q4wine icons list space;
Automatic unmounting for mouned media before mount new one;
Q4Wine now can be associated with application/x-ms-dos-executable mime type files;
Added AUTHORS file;
Added man pages;
Try to get program's icon from ~/.local/share/icons by it's name;

CMake now do check for fuseiso;
CMake now make more verbose output;
Total rewrite of CMake rules;
A lot of fixes in Fake drive creation\update wizard;
Fixed locale detection bugs;
Fixes in tray icon support;
Fixes in winetriks plugin;
A lot fixes in q4wine.desktop file;
Removed xdg-utils dependency;
A lot of fixes and speedups;
Fixed GUI issue with qtcurve theme engine;
Fixed *.bat files drop;
Removed _junk_ WineBinaryLauncher class;
Removed _junk_ includes;
MainWindow class cleanup;
Deprecated wineprefixcreate command was replaced by wineboot;
Fixed memory leaks reported by Valgrid;
Fixed crush while drop existing icon;
Fixed not critical error for fake C: symlink;
Fixed white spaces catch in wine app run engine;
Fixed cmake: appprefix setting now overrides default icon and desktop places;
Fixed strage locale bug on some Slakware distros;

Release sources and packages available in our downloads page.

v0.117-r8 release candidate updates

Publication date: 09 Apr 2010

This release candidate include fixes for q4wine's core and appdb browser for x86_64 systems, added appdb cache system, added man pages, updated locales.

v0.117-r6 ready for testing and translation process

Publication date: 22 Mar 2010

Hi to All!

I'd like to inform all of you, about new q4wine release candidate. It is fully ready for testing and translation update process.

Wine AppDB browser;
Q4Wine helper;
Logging subsystem;
GUI improvements;
CMake scripts updates;

You can get q4wine from git or download it from source forge mirror.

2translation team: We have 1 week for translation update. Please, if you can't do it in this terms -- inform me as soon as possible.

Wine AppDB database browser

Publication date: 15 Feb 2010

For now, q4wine has ability to query Wine AppDB database and get information on application compatibility with Wine.

To test it, you need build git version of q4wine, with -DWITH_WINEAPPDB=ON flag enabled.

Unfortunately, almost no one of wine devels not interested in my xml export script. Also I don't get any answer on my letter about hosting request at winehq.com host site. (Note: Before creating script, I ask for a hosting in appdb@winehq.org maillist and Alexander N. Sørnes says that it can be done. But...).

For now, I port xmlexport script to django framework and now, thx to Opium, we can host it on q4wine hosting site.

Note: Because we have no direct access to appdb database, we cant use it actual copy.

RSS news feed update

Publication date: 11 Feb 2010

RSS feed engine was changed, so old-style media/rss.xml not works for now.

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Q4Wine packages for Slackware.

Publication date: 18 Nov 2009

Thanks to Andrea Sciucca, q4wine packages for Slackware 13.0 distribution are available at web page of The Italian Slackware Community.

See our downloads page for details.

v0.114-r1 bug fix release

Publication date: 16 Nov 2009

Hi to All.

Kyrill Detinov reported bug in Fake Drive wizard, which creates wrong symbolic link for "C:" wine dosdrive;

This bug was fixed in 0.114-r1 release.

Fixed:

Fixed wrong wine "C:" dosdrive symlink while create new Fake Drive (thx 2 Kyrill Detinov);
Fixed Russian spelling;
Fixed some text layouts;

v0.114 release

Publication date: 15 Nov 2009

Hi to All!

It is time for new q4wine release tagged by 0.114 version. This release includes new Italian translation and translations updates for Spanish, Ukrainian and Portuguese (Brazil) locales.

I'd like to introduce new Wine Registry read\write engine, which allows to read existing Wine configuration keys during Fake Drive update process. Also I add some more wine configuration options in to Fake Drive Wizard dialog.

ChangeLog:

Added:

New Registry read\write engine;
New color option at Fake drive creation\update wizard;
New wine settings in Fake drive creation\update wizard;
Fake drive update wizard now can read actual wine registry configuration;
Filter text field for q4wine icons;
New Spanish translation (thx 2 Carlos Ignacio Ruax);
New Italian translation (thx 2 Ercole Carpanetto);
New FreeBSD mount and umount scripts (thx 2 Sergey V. Dyatko);

Fixed:

Removed _junk_ translation strings from source code and UI;
Fix for misfunctioning check wether or not to use ICOTOOLS. (thx 2 Impulze);
Prefix combobox change do not set right Prefix in Prefix tree view;
Fake drive update wizard now remove registry key while user reset it to 'Default' state;
Fix for prefix import and export;
And some small fixes for icoutils;

Release sources and packages available in our downloads page.

Q4Wine packages at openmamba.

Publication date: 14 Nov 2009

Thanks to Ercole Carpanetto, q4wine package is now included in the main repository of the openmamba distribution.

See our downloads page for details.

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