http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5114
Summary: suggesting more descriptive desktop window titles Product: Wine Version: 0.9.12. Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: christian@authmann.de
With Wine 0.9.10 I've been using three different WINEPREFIX'es for three different wine desktops, each holding its own application (just one each). The Window title was set by wine to the path of the application, and allowed me to automatically place those windows where I wanted by using KDE's window specific settings.
I've upgraded to 0.9.12 now, and it's probably because of the desktop changes in 0.9.11 that the desktop windows are now named just "Wine desktop" (which makes sense, as the desktop can contain multiple applications now). Unfortunately KWin cannot distinguish the three desktops any more as they'll all have the same class & title.
Proposed fix: add the desktop name to the window title, e.g. calling the window "Wine desktop: $desktop_name". This would allow me to run my apps with WINEPREFIX=/my/path/to/prefix_A/ wine explorer /desktop=A myapp.exe to get a unique window title "Wine desktop: A".
I wouldn't know how to fix this the proper way, so I'll leave the patching to you. Setting to wine-misc, as I'm not sure if it needs to be fixed in explorer, x11driver, both of them, or even somewhere else.
I'm using wine 0.9.12 from source, directly from gentoo portage, on x86_64, but I don't think that matters in this case.