Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 06 October 2009 01:33

Finally, after many months of development, testing and bugfixing a new version of q4wine has been released. q4wine is a wine configuration and management utility written in QT.

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;
Easy installer wizard for wine applications; (Not yet. Wait for v. 0.120)
Autostart icons support;
Easy cd-image use;
You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes.
Winetricks support.
And more..

New features avalible in the 0.113 release are:

Added:

Added q4wine-cli console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.
Added libq4wine implementation;
Added embeded q4wine-mount (This is a copy of fuseiso + RH path);
Note: use this if you too lazy to compile fuseiso from SF and apply pathes;
q4wine now remembers 8 recent mounted images;
q4wine now remembers 8 recent runned binaryes via Run dialog;
QtSingleApp integration. Now you can run only one instance of q4wine-gui;
Online documentation;
Now q4wine save last user selected prefix and dir;
Added "open directory" menu items via xdg-utils;
Added "open directory" menu items via winefile;
Added xdg-utils support (note: now it is in the depends list)
Added translation file for Portuguese (Brazil) by Marcio Moraes;
Added *.xpm filter to icon import patten;
Added http proxy support for winetricks;
Improved icon display widget;
Added Drag & Drop support;
Added Drag support q4wine icons export;
Added Drop support for wine .exe and .com files;
Added Drop support for wine .bat files (Now autoadd wineconsole binary args);
Added splitter for programs and icons lists;
Added command line option for q4wine (See q4wine --help for details);

Fixed:

Linux: Improved wine process list build (thanks to Sergey Kishchenko (tilarids));
Cleanup q4wine tmp directory on exit;
Some fixes for q4wine.desktop (thanks to Eugene Pivnev);
Fixed GUI bug: Text fields size, on some desktop configurations, are too small to edit;
Fixed a lot of English spelling errors (thanks to Sergey Kishchenko (tilarids));
First steps for source code documentation via Doxygen....;
Total code reorganize;
Database engine rewrite;
Many fixes for q4wine.desktop file (thanks to Kyrill Detinov);
Fixed compilation with Qt-4.4.X (thanks to Kyrill Detinov);