[Bug 19182] New: Allow to completely disable MIME-type and application integration

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19182

           Summary: Allow to completely disable MIME-type and application
                    integration
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.25
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: diafero at arcor.de


Note: I could not find a component "winemenubilder" which is why I selected
"-unknown".

It would be great to have a way to tell wine not to create a whole bunch of
files across the .config and .local directories. I don't want any mime-type
which is registered by a windows application run through wine to reflect on my
system - if I really want to use wine to open a certain filetype (which never
happened so far) I will do that manually. Nor do I want all the unnecessary
start menu entries to be added to my KDE menu - they end up in the wrong
category anyway. I like to have the control of creating these entries myself.
For the menu it worked fine to simply remove the "Wine" menu directory with the
menu editor. The annoying files still got created, but they were ignored.
However now wine started to spam my mime directory, too, and it constantly
re-creates the files in there - a really annoying behaviour. This not only
leads to the danger of me accidentally starting wine without wanting to do so,
it also drives some applications crazy (for example the KDE screenshot
application no longer recognizes ".jpg" to be a JPEG extension since wine added
.jfif).
I understand that many people want wine to just magically integrate into their
Linux environment, but there are also people like me who switched to Linux
because they like to have control, and Windows often prefers its own
preferences over the user's. Wine should really not bring that to Linux, or it
will get as annoying as Windows is. If I could not patch wine myself to no
longer create these files, I had no way to stop all these mime types from being
added, no configuration panel to remove them, nothing. I do not even know which
of my many WINEPREFIXes created the files.

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