https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56114
--- Comment #8 from Cedric cedric.dewijs@eclipso.eu --- (In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #7)
Hello,
Thanks for the clarification.
Regards.
(In reply to Alexandre Julliard from comment #6)
(In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #5)
So, please, clarify: Does the recursion issue that is prevented by the 'feature' only affects the Unix browser dialog itself, or does it potentially affects the use of the WINEPREFIX as the drive path?
It's only the browser that prevents entering WINEPREFIX, for unrelated reasons. It's not a problem to put the mount point inside the prefix if you want to.
Ok. That makes this bug invalid.
It's also not worth investing efforts into improving this, because people shouldn't need to edit drives manually, or put mount points in unusual places. The right way is to use the appropriate tool in the Linux desktop (e.g. gnome-disk-image-mounter) to mount the iso and let Wine create the drives automatically.
If people shouldn't need to edit drives manually, why give them the option to do so in the first place? Following that logic, the proper fix would be to remove the browser entirely, and to make the manual field read-only.
Or bug 56091 can be reopened, so one day the browser can work fully.