On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:58 PM Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:19 PM Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> wrote:


Open question for all Wine developers: What do you think is the right
approach to preventing unwanted associations?



Add support for further desktop standards, for example the default application to open a file type (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/ar01s04.html).

Generate a file open association per application instead of per extension, so each application appears in Freedesktop's right-click list and "Open with" list only once. I already sent patches for this long ago, but I don't think people understood them:
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2011-February/099364.html
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2011-February/099365.html

Damjan