[PATCH 4/5] winemenubuilder: Skip desktop integration for certain associations

[Alex Henrie]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:01 PM Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:58 PM Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Open question for all Wine developers: What do you think is the right
>> approach to preventing unwanted associations?
>
> Add support for further desktop standards, for example the default application to open a file type (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/ar01s04.html).

When multiple native programs can open a file type, I don't think that
Wine should be in charge of setting the default. That should be left
to the desktop environment or to the user.

> Generate a file open association per application instead of per extension, so each application appears in Freedesktop's right-click list and "Open with" list only once. I already sent patches for this long ago, but I don't think people understood them:
> https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2011-February/099364.html
> https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2011-February/099365.html

That's not a bad idea, but it doesn't solve the problem of unwanted
file associations.

-Alex