http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19182
Summary: Allow to completely disable MIME-type and application integration Product: Wine Version: 1.1.25 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: diafero@arcor.de
Note: I could not find a component "winemenubilder" which is why I selected "-unknown".
It would be great to have a way to tell wine not to create a whole bunch of files across the .config and .local directories. I don't want any mime-type which is registered by a windows application run through wine to reflect on my system - if I really want to use wine to open a certain filetype (which never happened so far) I will do that manually. Nor do I want all the unnecessary start menu entries to be added to my KDE menu - they end up in the wrong category anyway. I like to have the control of creating these entries myself. For the menu it worked fine to simply remove the "Wine" menu directory with the menu editor. The annoying files still got created, but they were ignored. However now wine started to spam my mime directory, too, and it constantly re-creates the files in there - a really annoying behaviour. This not only leads to the danger of me accidentally starting wine without wanting to do so, it also drives some applications crazy (for example the KDE screenshot application no longer recognizes ".jpg" to be a JPEG extension since wine added .jfif). I understand that many people want wine to just magically integrate into their Linux environment, but there are also people like me who switched to Linux because they like to have control, and Windows often prefers its own preferences over the user's. Wine should really not bring that to Linux, or it will get as annoying as Windows is. If I could not patch wine myself to no longer create these files, I had no way to stop all these mime types from being added, no configuration panel to remove them, nothing. I do not even know which of my many WINEPREFIXes created the files.