For a maximal dogfood experience, I was looking around for a way to use a replacement Windows shell with Wine as my desktop environment instead of gnome or kde.
So far, all the ones I've found are either broken, hard to use, or just plain weird. I've been working through the list at http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Microsoft_Windows/Software/Alternate_Shells/ http://www.astonshell.com/aston/ - couldn't figure out how to run it? http://www.emergedesktop.org/ - kind of works, but very minimal, no start menu http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/rob/liteshell.html - works, but very minimal, no start menu http://purels.org - no help, just exits, saying "ha ha, you didn't configure me". Obviously not meant for me :-) http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm - pretty, but no Programs menu?! (Maybe that's there but broken, wine bug?) http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/download.html - ROS explorer - prebuilt binary there is 3 years out of date, doesn't work too well Anyone have a favorite I should try? - Dan
