New subject: [Bug 18307] .desktop file associates with too many mime types (zip, executable)

30 Apr 2009


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18307
Summary: .desktop file associates with too many mime types (zip,
                    executable)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.20
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: integration, patch
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: tools
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org
        ReportedBy: scott@open-vote.org
Created an attachment (id=20846)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=20846)
Reduce .desktop file to application/x-msdos-executable and application/x-msi
Our desktop file is too greedy.  I think I wrote it a while back off a list of
every possible mime type a .exe file can have from somewhere on the internet;
this resulted in entries like x-zip-compressed and x-executable.  This results
in the side effect that Wine now tries to open shell scripts and zip files on
many systems.
On modern systems we can rely on shared-mime-info to correctly identify
executables as application/x-msdos-executable, so we only need that MIME type
for .exe.
So, I suggest we reduce our .desktop file to two mime types:
application/x-msdos-executable and application/x-msi.  The attached patch fixes
this.
This still leaves the possibility of not opening .com, .bat, or similar files,
however that's already broken and is a bug in shared-mime-info to be fixed
there.  Moreover, there's a slight chance of the reverse possibility - a .exe
file that isn't a Wine executable file.  I don't think that's our bug either
though - again a problem in shared-mime-info.
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[Bug 18307] New: .desktop file associates with too many mime types (zip, executable)