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

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

--- Comment #52 from Martin Misuth <et.junk at ethome.sk> 2012-08-01 20:13:57 CDT ---
>It's hard to take you seriously with such immature writing and when you easily
>tolerated this for 2 years.

I don't mind appearing as immature and I don't mind if I come accross as
trolling or retarded. Think what you want about it, but this is expression of
genuine frustration. I know I am not alone. I think after years of fixing my
mime entries from backup, I have full right to complain vocally and to even
swear a fair bit.

To me it appears much more immature to steal associations of the host system by
default. WINE's iexplorer for handling image files? Come on. Thats like worst
decision. I know it was like that on windows till XP's image viewer arrived (or
something like that), and remember very well how it always made me angry. That
was the reason I was happy with Linux, but coming full circle, WINE is now
doing very same thing. That is just sad. 

In any case, well behaved WINE would ask me before first run whether I even
want integration or not. I don't care about prefixes, WINE should handle it. If
winemenubuilder is not making those .lnk and .desktop files, then that
something else what is creating them, should respect my wish to have no
integration at all as well.

I don't know how freedesktop suggests to sort out mime type priorities, but I
know for a fact that on many computers (not just mine) I must setup a script to
restore mimetypes from backup, or now when I know better, add above mentioned
hacks.

>Windows apps know nothing about KDE, Gnome, or any other Linux desktop manager.
> Wine meddling with these settings is a "feature" that does not exist in
>Windows to begin with.

My words, exactly. Why can't we have sane default of being asked first, during
very first initialisation, while we are still focused to the fact, we are
initialising wine for first time?

>Pending Desktop Integration
>
>Application MyCoolApp.exe has installed new shortcuts or/and made changes to
>files associations. Do you want to integrate these changes into your Linux
>desktop environment?
>
>Yes | No

Have you seen how "normal" users behave, when they are shown such dialog by
firewall on windows? It's nice at first, but after a while it becomes annoying.
And many just click whathever is closer to mouse cursor without even reading.

>Uh, wine has no security features at all. Every windows application running
>with your user privileges can do anything a linux application could do, no
>matter which folders are assigned drive letters and which are not.

Point taken.

Integration is nice for those who care about it, but there is fair number of
those, who are not that happy with it too. What can we expect next, automatic
binfmt_misc registration without even being asked?

Maybe there should be separate program created as integration cleaner /
enabler? I don't know, but just running amok stealing mimetypes and dropping
desktop files everywhere cannot sound right.

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