Quoting Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Wine + XPde (http://xpde.com) is probably the most Windows-resemblant environment I can think of. Sadly, XPde seems to be stalled.
> 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 there is 3 years out of date, doesn't work too well 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 > > > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
