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Be more explicit when describing what belongs in Wine (API) and what 

does not belong in Wine (drivers, Windows applets, window managers,
etc.). Also point to projects where such contributions would be more
appropriate.
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</question>
<answer>
<para>
Most of them, yes. However, some applications and applets that come
with MS Windows, such as File Manager and Calculator, can be
considered by some to be redundant, since 32-bit UNIX programs that
duplicate these applets' functions already exist.
Wine's goal is to make it possible to run Windows applications on
Unix. To this end it will provide replacements for just those
DLLs and APIs that are needed by these Windows applications.
This means that Wine will not provide replacements for DLLs that
are not shipped with Windows or are always shipped with Windows
application (e.g. the Visual Basic runtime). This also
means that implementing an API that no application ever uses is not
a priority. Similarly, until there are applications out there that
use the Win64 API, it will not be a priority. That being said,
we will certainly try to keep our options open and to improve our API
coverage as we can.
</para>
<para>
Also Wine is not an operating system, so that writing device
drivers is not part of Wine's goals. However if you are interested
in device drivers, the <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux</>,
<ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</> and
<ulink url="http://www.reactos.com/">ReactOS</> kernel developpers
would certainly appreciate your contribution.
</para>
<para>
Similarly Wine does not try to be a desktop environment so
providing applets such as a calculator, a file manager or even
window manager that look like Windows, are low priority or would
even best be done as a separate project. Such projects would also
to a large extant be redundant with other open-source projects.
Again, there are projects that would certainly appreciate your
contributions in this areas, such as the
<ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome</> or
<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</> desktop environments. You
will get the added benefit that your contribution will then be
usable by everyone, not just by Wine users.
</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>