From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Improved file association desktop integration
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:54:06 -0600
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:49 PM Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:45 PM Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:29 AM Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Alex Henrie wrote:
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>> > > The big change here is rewriting the patches to avoid the term
>> > > "blacklist", which I have replaced with "naughty list".
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>> > In this context it's not clear what naughty means. What in a file
>> > extension is "badly behaved, disobedient or mildly rude or indecent"?
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>> Several built-in Wine programs are badly behaved in the sense that
>> they associate themselves with file types that native desktop programs
>> are better suited to open.
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> Would it be a problem to remove such integration completely? I can't think of a good scenario when it would be useful.

The associations have to be in Wine for programs that call `start.exe
<file>` to open a file.

-Alex