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I've used wine for years, I moved to crossover last year when ordered to use Microsoft word for a project. I felt it was time to invest back into wine, etc. This was fine I was happy that wine and crossover did not care about each other that was on Fedora 13. Plus work paid for the purchase of crossover - bonus.

I am now on Fedora 15 and using Gnome 3.0.1 and well its all a bit of a mess. Since the desktop/window manager model has changed all my wine and crossover applications are mixed up in one giant pot of a desktop. This is rather annoying. In fact I started moving applications out of wine and into crossover to reduce and remove duplication.

Is there an easier way to do this? At the moment I am uninstalling things from wine (which never works) and reinstalling things into crossover. I have dependent software half in wine and half in crossover. In retrospect I should had removed the crossover copies rather than the wine ones as I had installed them to compare and contrast the differences but I didn't.

So is there a clever way to get all my wine environment imported into a crossover bottle?

Well... and this will be 'unsupported', for the record.

Your ".wine" prefix is essentially one big CrossOver bottle, if you renamed it "WINE" and put it in ~/.cxoffice/bottles/ it would appear as a bottle in CrossOver. Then, you can tell CrossOver to create menus & associations for those items:

cxoffice/bin/cxmenu --bottle <bottle-name> --removeall --install

In theory, this should get you all fixed up. I must warn you, some things may break when doing this. However, it may save you some time and headache.

Good Luck and thanks for your support of the Wine Project!

Cheers will give it ago this evening!