Windows programs on Linux, easily
Latest changes: CrossOver support, Wine-Staging features and more!
May 7th
Here are some of the changes from the last two weeks of development:
New Features:
- Support for CrossOver.
- Auto-detection of supported Wine features.
- Support for a number of Staging features and common patches:
- CSMT (both dll and patched versions, ie. Wine-Staging, CrossOver and custom Wine versions are all supported)
- DXVA2 VAAPI
- EAX Emulation
- “Run in a terminal” More >
New builds in the PPA
Mar 22nd
I’ve overhauled the packaging of Vineyard, and we now have builds back up for all LTS (long term support) Ubuntu releases going back to 12.04 (Precise) as well as for 15.10 (Wily) and 16.04 (Xenial). 16.04 deprecated the python-support package in favour of dh-python (in line with Debian), so Vineyard More >
Wine version handling, better 64-bit support and bug-fixes!
Mar 21st
Vineyard has seen some development during the past few weeks and has received bug-fixes and new features! Some of the more advanced functionality – that was previously only supported by editing the wrapper.cfg file – is now easily accessible!
Here’s a list of some the most visible changes:
- Creating a prefix has More >
Release changes, the poll and CodeWeavers
Apr 15th
Release changes Now that package recipes in Launchpad are out of beta, Vineyard will start publishing daily builds instead of the testing releases you’ve seen so far.
This means that although there is already a new daily build out, it does not yet include functioning theme support (not in the GUI at More >
Poll: What should be the focus for the release of Vineyard?
Mar 30th
There are a bunch of features already brewing in Vineyard, but what would you most like to see show up in the next release?
Here’s a few of the things I’ve been working on, but feel free to suggest your own ideas.
- Programs page speed-up/improvements
- Colour-“theme” editing
- Windows theme support
- Making it possible to disable More >
New-new version!
Mar 18th
I released a new beta version the other day, but didn’t post a changelog. Well, here’s yet another release already, and therefore also the changelogs for both releases. UPDATE: Pre12 didn’t have the prefix Add/Remove buttons in vineyard-preferences hooked up, so another new release!
Pre13
- Prefix Add/Remove buttons work again
- Remove button More >
Quick teaser: Shell links
Mar 14th
Just a quick post to show that Vineyard (and python-wine) now handles shell links (.lnk files):
The Nautilus property page showing the info in the link for Mozilla Firefox Safe Mode
If you’re interested in the technical stuff, python-wine can now read all the contained info in a Windows shell link More >
Bug fix release
Feb 11th
A few people experienced issues with the previous testing release and there were indeed a few show stopping issues, so let’s bring on the bug fix release!
Fixed in pre10: python-wine:
- python-wine will now exit with a fitting message if Wine is not installed
- If the default prefix doesn’t exist on access it More >
New pre-release
Feb 9th
New pre-release out! It’s building in the PPA right now and available for download here: python-wine pre9 and vineyard pre9.
Changes are:
vineyard-launcher:
- Supports symlinking a directory to a configuration
- Relative file-paths work
vineyard-indicator:
- New icons for all themes based on Connor Carney’s new design
vineyard-preferences:
- Program adding is implemented
- Lot’s of fixes for program editing
- All programs that can be More >
New release
Dec 21st
Finally! It’s late, it’s Christmas and the next test release has been uploaded!
- Program editing works now
- Running programs (especially from vineyard-cli) is more stable and easier with regards to syntax and also works much better with older programs and patchers
- Loading and saving settings is somewhat faster now
- Nautilus now shows an InfoBar More >
