With programs that utilize certain features of Windows' desktop environment,
Wine, in my experience, has often had issues. Pop-up notifications from
programs often don't function as well as they do in windows, the Wine system
tray doesn't always work as well as the windows system tray, and it
certainly isn't as convenient as the Windows system tray.
The thought occurred to me today of making a separate workspace just for Wine
programs. It could be switched to the same way as other workspaces, but it
wouldn't have the same shortcuts or panels as the other workspaces. The
system tray would be in-line with the panel, instead of being its own window,
and instead of having the regular Menu Bar, it would just have the Wine menu.
Not having to integrate it with a regular Linux desktop environment would make
it possible to keep all of the functionality that the programs would have under
Windows.
This of course wouldn't be something that should come built into Wine,
I'm sure many people wouldn't need or want it, but for those using
Windows programs that don't work so well under Wine, having one (or
multiple) workspaces designed for Windows programs would be very useful.
I'm very new to programming, with only some basic knowledge of BASH and
Python, but if anybody would like to take my idea, please, feel free. I'm
not sure how plausible this really is, but if it could work and somebody would
want to create it, I'm sure many people would use it.
