Open and Shut ... Again!

In my previous post RANT ( Open and Shut ... Picasa no es mi casa! ) I stirred up at least one hornet from the nest ... and the comment dialog with Dan Kegel isn't over yet.

Then I found this ...

Give Wine apps the look and feel of GNOME or KDE

By Andrew Min on January 10, 2008 (4:00:00 PM)
Wine allows users to run Windows programs natively under Linux without paying a dime. However, there's a tiny problem: programs running in Wine don't look so great. They don't even try to fit into your native GNOME or KDE color scheme or use your preferred fonts. You could use a Windows theme, but themes make Wine run extremely slowly. Luckily, with a little configuration editing, it's easy to make Wine applications look at lot more like the rest of the apps on your desktop.
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My comment at Linux.com, reposted here sums up my feelings....

NO NO NO ...This is WRONG! Port applications to Linux. Do not foster the illusion that it is in any way appropriate to _make do_ with Microsoft apps in a Linux environment.

...and PLEASE, don't ever call them "Wine apps" again... What an insult to Wine!