On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:01 PM Damjan Jovanovic damjan.jov@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:58 PM Alex Henrie alexhenrie24@gmail.com 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).
When multiple native programs can open a file type, I don't think that Wine should be in charge of setting the default. That should be left to the desktop environment or to the user.
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
That's not a bad idea, but it doesn't solve the problem of unwanted file associations.
-Alex