Application Ratings System Help

The Application Database features a rating system that allows us and you to see which applications work the best in Wine. This voting system is designed to be pessimistic.

1. Log into the Application Database.
2. Browse to the Application you wish to rate.
3. In the sidebar, choose whether you are rating Wine running in Windows mode, or Fake Windows Mode.
   
   • With Windows = Wine Configured to use a Windows partition.
   • Without Windows = Wine using its own internal Windows (Fake Windows).
4. In the sidebar, click the number of stars you want to rate this application.
   
   • 0 -- Unrated.
   • 1 -- Totally nonfunctional. Crashes on load.
   • 2 -- Partial functionality. Good enough for a carefully scripted demo.
   • 3 -- Sufficient functionality for noncritical work. Occasional crashes okay, as are weird setup problems, required patches, or missing major functionality. Alpha quality.
   • 4 -- Substantially correct. Good enough for general use, with possible caveats.
   • 5 -- Perfect. No flaws under any mode
5. Click the Rate! button to store your vote for this application.

• First, figure out the name of the app, the vendor, and the product version number.
• Try to start the application under the emulator. If it completes loading, without crashing, and displaying more or less what it would under some version of Windows, then the app deserves a 2. Otherwise, it gets a 1.
• Try doing a few things with it. If you can find several useful operations which can be correctly performed with the app, such that you would be willing to stand in front of a large group of people, saying ``This app works nearly perfectly on Wine'' and doing those operations, give it a 3.
• If you don't normally use the app, stop here. Higher ratings should only be given for app performance under actual use.
• At some time when there is something which you need to do with the app, try doing it under Wine. If you can get the job done without putting your fist through the screen, then the application deserves a 4. Note that this is not, ``Someone could do useful work with this app'' but ``I have used this app for useful work, not just fooling around.''
• If you use an app under Wine for months, and its behavior is robust under a variety of uses, its performance is adequate, and these characteristics are stable as Wine changes from release to release, and it works for a lot of people with varying setups under various OSes, then it deserves a 5.
• After a new version of Wine, test the application again. If the app improves or gets worse, come back and change your vote.