[Bug 19062] New: Wine link in favorites

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19062

Summary: Wine link in favorites
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.24
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Windows comes with some pre-set favorites in C:\users\Alice\Favorites\ to the
Microsoft website, and related such.

Wine can have a link to the Wine website in /users/Alice/Favorites/

It should be .url files.

I've attached a Wine.url file, that could be placed in
/users/Alice/Favorites/Wine.url

We could also have a link to the bugzilla, wiki, appdb, forums, etc.

[Bug 19062] Wine link in favorites

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19062

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--- Comment #1 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-24 07:34:20 ---
This is not Windows, it's your favourite browser who provides it.

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--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-24 07:34:41 ---
Closing.

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail]   2009-06-24 07:46:17 ---
Then why is there is a /users/Alice/Favorites/ if it is not used?
It is empty.

Microsoft provides some default .url files in there. So why shouldn't you?
It would provide better integration, as the Wine link would appear in Explorer,
Internet Explorer and other file managers, browsers and other software that
imports favorites/bookmarks from the Favorites folder in the user's home
directory.

Only 111 bytes is needed, and it can be implemented in less than a minute.

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[InternetShortcut]

URL=http://www.winehq.org/

IDList=

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]

Prop3=19,2

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--- Comment #4 from [e-mail]   2009-06-24 07:47:41 ---
Created an attachment (id=21987)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21987)
Wine.url, a file to be placed in /Favorite

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail]   2009-06-24 07:48:55 ---
(From update of attachment 21987)
Provides better integration and connects users of Wine with the Wine website
and the Wine community.

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--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-24 08:02:14 ---
Post a patch to your favourite web browser.

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Austin English   2009-06-24 11:41:18 ---
I don't think it's such a bad idea...It wouldn't be too hard to implement, and
gives a nice benefit.

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--- Comment #8 from [e-mail]   2009-06-24 16:27:58 ---
@Dmitry,
Why the hell would any web browser want to add a favorite link to the Wine
website.
It does not make any sense.
It is the Wine project who should add the link.

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--- Comment #9 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-06-24 19:38:51 ---
Invalid, Wine doesn't have browser.

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--- Comment #10 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-06-24 19:39:52 ---
Closing.

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--- Comment #11 from Austin English   2009-06-24 19:40:23 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Invalid, Wine doesn't have browser.

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=tree;f=programs/iexplore

This should at least be discussed on wine-devel before being closed as a
WONTFIX.

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--- Comment #12 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-25 07:00:00 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Why the hell would any web browser want to add a favorite link to the Wine
> website.
> It does not make any sense.
> It is the Wine project who should add the link.

Wine project has nothing to do with your preferences or your web browser's
favourites list.

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--- Comment #13 from [e-mail]   2009-06-25 11:30:06 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Wine project has nothing to do with your preferences or your web browser's
> favourites list.

Well, when the link is to the Wine website, its in Wine interest to place a
link to it.

(In reply to comment #9)
> Invalid, Wine doesn't have browser.

But you can run Internet Explorer (and maybe other browsers that store the
favorites in the same place) on Wine.

[Bug 19062] Wine link in favorites

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--- Comment #14 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-25 11:50:10 ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > Wine project has nothing to do with your preferences or your web browser's
> > favourites list.
>
> Well, when the link is to the Wine website, its in Wine interest to place a
> link to it.

No, in Wine interests is to make Wine code work better. Everything else
is outside of the Wine project.
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > Invalid, Wine doesn't have browser.
>
> But you can run Internet Explorer (and maybe other browsers that store the
> favorites in the same place) on Wine.

Right, and they have their own set of favourites, and don't care to ask
whether you like it or not.

In any case, if you wish some site appear in favorites of your browser,
either add it by hands, or send a patch/complaint to your browser developers.
Wine has nothing to do with anything above.

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--- Comment #15 from André H.   2009-07-02 13:19:31 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > (In reply to comment #12)
> > > Wine project has nothing to do with your preferences or your web browser's
> > > favourites list.
> >
> > Well, when the link is to the Wine website, its in Wine interest to place a
> > link to it.
>
> No, in Wine interests is to make Wine code work better. Everything else
> is outside of the Wine project.

Wrong! We do integration in the "host-system" and also into the programs we
could run. So IMHO adding such registry-keys is a integration-interest.

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--- Comment #16 from Ken Sharp  2011-03-27 19:38:08 CDT ---
Anything happening with this?

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--- Comment #17 from André H.  2011-03-28 11:58:52 CDT ---
A great step would be to learn how CreateURLFileContents works (maybe).
see:
http://source.winehq.org/source//dlls/shlwapi/shlwapi.spec?v=wine-1.3.15#L29...

@Dmitry, don't get confused by "Alice", it's the username, not a Browser or
something

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--- Comment #18 from André H.  2013-06-04 16:07:47 CDT ---
still a problem of CreateURLFileContents i guess

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