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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well. there are wiki pages with info about Lutris etc. like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutris

But since I'm the author of WineGUI, I'm not allowed to create: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WineGUI (currently it just redirects to wine instead... bleh). Stupid Wikipedians people.

Here you have the full page:

{{short description|A user-friendly WINE manager}}
{{Infobox software
| title                  = 
| name                   = WineGUI
| logo                   = <!-- Image name is enough -->
| logo size              = 
| logo alt               = 
| logo caption           = 
| screenshot             = WineGUI Screenshot.png
| screenshot size        = 
| screenshot alt         = 
| caption                = WineGUI Graphical Interface
| collapsible            = 
| author                 = 
| developer              = Melroy van den Berg
| released               = {{Start date and age|2019}}
| discontinued           = 
| latest release version = 2.6.1
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2024|07|25|df=yes}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date    = 
| programming language   = [[C++|C++]] ([[Gtkmm]])
| operating system       = [[Linux]]
| platform               = 
| size                   = 
| language               = English
| language count         = <!-- Number only -->
| language footnote      = 
| genre                  = [[Compatibility layer]]
| license                = [[GPL]]
| alexa                  = 
| website                = {{URL|https://winegui.melroy.org}}
| standard               = 
| AsOf                   = 
}}

'''WineGUI''' is a [[graphical frontend]] for the [[Wine (software)|Wine]] software [[compatibility layer]] which allows [[Linux]] users to install [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]-based Software as well as [[video games]] for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].

WineGUI can be used under [[Linux]] operating systems; deb, rpm and tar prebuild packages are provided.<ref>{{cite web
 | url        = https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/winegui/-/releases
 | title      = WineGUI Releases
 | publisher  = WineGUI
 | accessdate = 14 October 2024}}</ref>

==Internals==
WineGUI is fully developed using the [[C++]] programming language and [[Gtkmm]] ([[GTK]] C++ wrapper) GUI-toolkit.

In some cases WineGUI rely on [[Winetricks]] to configure the Wine bottles. The latest Winetricks release will be retrieved automatically. 

Each "Windows Machine" in WineGUI has it's own Wine bottle (thus a different WINEPREFIX).

WineGUI is very responsive, due the fact that bottle (re)configurations are done in a multi-threaded manner. Also the GTK GUI natively integrates into most common [[Linux distributions]], matching the user's theme preferences.

Currently, WineGUI is relying on the Wine version that is installed on the host machine. However there are plans to support other Wine versions as well as other various Wine forks<ref>{{cite web
 | url        = https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/winegui/-/issues/22
 | title      = WineGUI Tickets
 | publisher  = WineGUI
 | accessdate = 17 June 2022}}</ref>.

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
* [[Wine (software)|Wine]]
* [[Winetricks]]
* [[Proton (software)]]
* [[Lutris]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://winegui.melroy.org Official Homepage]
* [https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/winegui GitLab project]
* [https://github.com/winegui/WineGUI GitHub project (mirror)]

[[Category:Wine (software)]]
[[Category:Software derived from or incorporating Wine]]
[[Category:Software that uses GTK]]
[[Category:Free software programmed in C++]]
[[Category:Computing platforms]]
[[Category:Free system software]]
[[Category:2019 software]]

{{graphics-software-stub}}
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To not keep you waiting any further, I want to let you know I'll probably not do that. Besides, I havent ever edited wikipedia.😅 I havent even tried the program yet. Thank you creating this, if I check the program in the future I'll see what I can do.

(I suppose you have talked to the appropriate wikipedia mainteners, right?)

Also if anyone else sees this and adds it, please let us know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

ah too bad. Maybe somebody will at some point.. before 2057.