Forgive my lazyness and my bad english, but IMHO most of discussion resembles MS Corporation behaviour by trying to decide what is good for a user, and what is not. Hey, just let the user or his admin to decide this.
IMO there should be just one checkbox in winecfg that rules autorunability.
* On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Tim Schmidt wrote:
KDE and Gnome already have similar functionality. No reason the parser can't go there (where, perhaps, people might be a little less hostile to the idea?)
Right, but then it still should be nice to find a way for Wine to know if KDE/Gnome is set to autorun win32 apps. And a way to toggle this KDE/Gnome setting. This way could let user/admin to manage autorunability from winecfg by clicking mentioned checkbox.
Otherwise user/admin would complain about Wine inability to integrate with the rest of a graphical system :-/
And of course, the autorunability should be disabled by default when graphical environment knows/says nothing about autoruns. Just likes all my neighbouring win-admins do for their customized/unattended XP setups. <g>
Hm, someone should show this thread to KDE/Gnome/FreeDesktop folks, IMHO. I am off this task ;)