The release of the Startwine-Launcher 410 application has been made public. It is developed to run applications and games compiled for the Windows platform on Linux systems. The main goal of the StartWine-Launcher development was to simplify the process of creating Wine prefixes for beginners, which are sets of libraries and dependencies required to run Windows applications in Linux. The StartWine-Launcher code is written in Python and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The interface is implemented based on the GTK library.
In the new version:
- The backup of the default prefix has been updated.
- Prefix configurations have been updated.
- The list of Wine versions has been updated.
- The list of dxvk and vkd3d versions has been updated.
- Runimage has been updated to the latest version.
- Added the ability to update the container from the menu without needing to unload it.
- The runimage container now uses a faster dwarfs file system.
- MangoHud has been updated to the latest version.
- Locales have been updated.
- The list of winetricks libraries has been updated.
- Libraries and drivers in the container have been updated.
- Removed outdated 32-bit prefix functions.
- Removed the deprecated prefix cleanup function.
- Fixed a rendering issue with the interface on NVIDIA graphics cards.
- Fixed an issue with hot-plugging gamepads in games.
- Fixed a network connection issue in some games and launchers.
- Fixed a problem with application freezing in some Linux distributions, such as CachyOS.
- Part of the code has been rewritten in Rust.
- The system tray menu has been rewritten and updated.
- The keyboard shortcut for terminating Wine processes now works globally, even when the window is minimized or closed.
- Added the ability to restore the window with a global keyboard shortcut.
- Added a keyboard shortcut for fullscreen mode.
- Added a keyboard shortcut for capturing the screen or window for video recording.
- A new alternative user interface for the StartWineShell console has been developed, which includes a file manager and all main StartWine functions with its own command system and the ability to invoke shell commands both on the host and in the container.
Source: opennet.ru
