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

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

            Bug ID: 38468
           Summary: Allow navigating to folders with colon in their name
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.38
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: yajo at openaliasbox.org
      Distribution: ---

Right now, the current implementation of GVFS mounts samba folders in paths
like:

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

Some Windows apps don't work fine with those characters in the path.

For example, if I want to install something I have in that share and I run the
`setup.exe` file from `wine explorer`, it works; but if I run it from `wine
uninstaller`, it fails saying that characters "/:<>|" are forbidden in paths.

Also, if I installed MS Excel and try to open a .xslx file from a samba share
in Nautilus (right button > open with > MS Excel), it fails saying that it
cannot find the file.

This makes the UX very uncomfortable, because the user needs to copy the file
to a local drive, edit it, and then copy it back to the network share.

Independently if Bug 34748 gets fixed or not, IMHO wine itself should do
something with Linux paths containing those characters, the same way it does
when transforming "/" to "\" or when dealing with uppercase/lowercase files.

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