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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • melroy@kbin.melroy.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Bottles 51.14 Update Brings Windows 11 Support
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    1 month ago

    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}}