On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:03:21 +0100 Michael Müller michael@fds-team.de wrote:
Maybe Rosanne can share her opinion on this topic, since she has more contact with users complaining about this "feature".
I'm not the least bit qualified to say what would or wouldn't be a good GSoC project, but if you're asking whether I think users would benefit from adding elaborate controls to winecfg that duplicate functions already provided by the desktop environment's tools, the answer is no. I agree with Damjan that those settings should be controlled through the host system, not Wine, and users need to learn how to use the configuration tools provided by their DE. I also see a significant downside to trying to control mimetype associations in winecfg: configuring would have to be done individually for each and every wineprefix. That's more work, not less, and speaking as a user with multiple wineprefixes, a headache I'd rather not have.
As for bug 19182, the OR never asked for the complicated controls people have been proposing lately; all he wanted was a user-friendly way to completely disable mimetype associations and menu entries. A simple checkbox on the desktop integration tab to disable winemenubuilder would accomplish that.