https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35533
--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru --- (In reply to François Gouget from comment #5)
On the JobDetails page one can download two types of files:
- Patches
- The resulting Windows executables (or those uploaded by the developer).
GetFile.pl used to indiscriminately return application/octet-stream. Now it sets the MIME type to test/plain for patches so the browser typically offers opening them in a text editor (at least that's what happens in Firefox).
I have two browsers in my Linux system: Firefox 52.8.0 (64-bit) and Chromium version 61.0.3163.100 (64-bit). After going for instance to the following URL https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=39460 in both browsers and clicking patch.diff Firefox does show an "Open file with..." dialog and after choosing the text editor the file gets opened in the editor. However Chromium still suggests only to save the file to disk.
It's maybe not quite as nice as viewing the patch inline but it's still better than the previous situation.
I'm sorry, but no, it's not better in any way. It's ugly and unusable. For a comparison just see how Wine bugzilla manages the text attachments.