On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM, 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."
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.
Yes, this will require a modicum of consensus. We might decide to stay unsafe, or we might decide to make the bindings be in a separate package, so it's easier for admins to flip the switch.
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
Yep. - Dan