wine overstepping the mark?

[Dustin Navea]

that is exactly my point.. lol thanks for saving me the time of writing 
what you just said..

wino: wine believes it needs to do that for all users, because it thinks 
that all users want to run windows programs..  I understand now that you 
only want to be able to run wine under 1 user, and so therefore it 
shouldnt change system-wide settings, but is there a .exe mimetype on a 
user level?  Last time I checked there wasn't, and so therefore it has 
to do it on the system level, and the only reason that wine needs to 
control the exe's is because there isnt anything else that will run a 
.exe file itself.  Notice i said run..  You can load .exe's into a hex 
editor, and maybe that is what you want to do on your other users, in 
which case I agree, wine should ask if you associate .exe's with wine. 
But most users who are installing wine, are probably going to be doing 
it to run windows programs, and on a system-wide level, not to run 
windows programs on a per-user level, and load them in a hex editor on 
all other users, which is why wine is just taking control, instead of 
asking, to make it a more user-friendly experience.

Hope that makes sense..

Dustin

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Thursday, October 27, 2005, 5:04:05 PM, wino at piments.com wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for the explaination but that's just my point. That is windows  
>>mentality, but this is not windows.
> 
> 
>>If I install gimp it does not try to reconfigure my system and take over  
>>control of any image file types it can handle. That is windows mentality.
> 
> I wander what else can you use to open exe files with? And not just open, but
> run?
> 
> Vitaliy