Michael Jung mjung@iss.tu-darmstadt.de writes:
For some reason I thought that by default wine isn't following symbolic links to directories, but that doesn't seem to be true any more. Is this option still available? Do we still have to consider this?
There's no longer an option, symlink loops are now detected automatically. It means a symlink to $HOME won't show up in directory searches, but I doubt this would be a major problem.
I would go on to extend winecfg then, to support setting symbolic links for the "Desktop" and the "My Documents" folders. And add a command line option to set reasonable defaults in a GUI-less mode to be called from wineprefixcreate.
Support in winecfg would be good, but I think we still want shell32 to be able to set proper defaults, especially if a wrong setup means file dialogs don't work anymore.