[Bug 38468] Allow navigating to folders with colon in their name

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38468

François Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from François Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com> ---
I have collected some data on this.

/run/user/<UID>/smb-share:server=hostname,share=sharename/

In the path below '/run/user/<UID>' is the gvfs mount point and
'smb-share:server=hostname,share=sharename' is a virtual directory created by
gvfs when one 'mounts' the corresponding Samba share.

So I'm not sure Wine would get a notification when the 'smb-share:...'
directory gets created. Still the gvfs documentation says that it uses UDisks2
and the source code does contain quite a few references to UDisks2. So there's
hope that Wine can turn these into drive letters and thus 'hide' the colon in
the path.


Another point has to do with the error one gets when double-clicking on a
filename containing a colon in the File -> Open dialog. It comes from a check
in the first lines of FILEDLG95_ValidatePathAction() in
dlls/comdlg32/filedlg.c. Removing that check makes it possible to open a
filenames containing a colon in Wine's notepad application. But Excel 2000
still refuses to open such filenames. So either there are other checks
elsewhere, or Excel itself does not deal well with such filenames. So it seems
there's no single-line hack that would workaround this issue for most
applications.

Any 'path mangling' approach would obviously have to be done at a much lower
level. Maybe it could leverage the short vs. long filename support but that's
not clear.

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