[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 #54 from Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> 2012-08-02 09:17:10 CDT ---
Well, since people are quoting my earlier words, I suppose I better weigh in.

Philosophically, I stand by my earlier statement; IMO, adding mimetype
associations to the host system instead of just to Wine's explorer goes beyond
mimicking Windows. If I had my druthers, it would be off by default, with a
simple checkbox in winecfg to turn it on for people who want it.

But as a practical matter, working around this is trivial. Adding the override
to .bashrc quashes it once and for all for that user, and the instructions for
how to do that have been in the FAQ for over three years. I do not think adding
a single line to a plain text file that does not even require sudo to edit is
beyond the mental capacity of normal users.

I also think some people are greatly overstating the dire effects of not
turning it off. My experience (on KDE) before I disabled it entirely was that
mimetypes were added to the bottom of the list of associations, so the default
for the system was not changed: LibreOffice still opened doc files when I
clicked them, even though Wine had added a more than a dozen associations for
Word (none of which worked, btw) to the list. If someone is seeing Wine's
associations supersede existing defaults, IMO, they should file a bug for that,
because I don't think that's the intended behavior.

As to the suggestion for some sort of complicated dialog to pester users about
this every time they create a wineprefix, personally, I would find that MORE
intrusive, so if someone decides to add that, please make sure there is an easy
way to disable that once and for all.

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