[Bug 28158] winemenubuilder forces lower case when searching fd.o mime database

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28158

--- Comment #10 from MestreLion <wine at rodrigosilva.com> 2011-08-23 08:31:25 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Filename extension case sensitivity was written with the assumption that on
> Windows it is case insensitive while on *nix it is case sensitive. That's why
> we lowercase in some cases - to force everything into the common *nix case.
> 
> If you're saying Windows does case sensitive matching, then yes,
> winemenubuilder needs to be fixed.

Im glad to hear from you, Damjan, as i truly admire all the hard work you put
on winemenubuilder... i've been studing its source code, and its a phenomenal
tool.

The issue is not about associations within windows. Its about the bridge that
winemenubuilder does in native associations. More precisely, functions
build_native_mime_types() and freedesktop_mime_type_for_extension(). They 
should also lowercase native extensions.

Currently, if a windows app registers .z (or .Z, or .amr), winemenubuilder will
not find the corresponding native mimetypes application/x-compress (or
audio/AMR), and it **will think those extensions dont exist in native
system!*** and will create new, redundant mimetypes for them.

Not only that, but the new mimetypes and .desktop entries will not work the way
they should: native apps will not be able to open .Z files, because
x-wine-extension-z.desktop wont handle them

winemenubuilder is a bridge between windows and native. So it should force
lowercase for all incoming extensions (meaning build_native_mime_types() should
lowercase fd.o entries when building the list) for truly case-insensitiveness
to work correctly. And it should use proper case when creating .desktop and
mime.xml files in native system.

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