2009/2/24 Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com:
Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-...
"Do not set the file association for Windows executables with Wine. This would enable running Windows executables in Wine by simply double clicking them."
I saw a patch floating by to turn this on by default recently. Maybe we should make it off by default, but easy to turn on...?
This would annoy all the people that the association targets. We can either make it easy to run all Windows apps (malware and legit) via file manager, or none at all.
Yes, exactly. The default should be off, and it should be easy to turn on.
And if we're willing to deal with an influx of users complaining why it doesn't work like that any more, we should do it. We'd probably also have to get all the package maintainers on board though.
My packaging process doesn't do anything that explicitly associates Wine with exes, but I just tried opening an exe from Thunar and it ran ... interesting. Debian, 1.1.15