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  1. Bug #435811
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Comment 11 for bug 435811

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Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov) wrote :

Hello

I wrote the MIME type association code for Wine, and I know what's wrong here.

A Windows application installed under Wine can associate itself with file extensions to open. Wine will try to import those associations into your freedesktop.org desktop. (Lonoy probably didn't install the Windows application that tries to associate with JPEG files, and so couldn't reproduce the bug).

Now the application name in your "Open With" menu that Wine adds, comes from the ASSOCSTR_FRIENDLYAPPNAME registry value, which is optional on Windows, but not optional on freedesktop.org. Thus Wine has to invent something to put there, and it puts "A Wine application".

If you consider this a problem, please open an upstream bug on http://bugs.winehq.org, component "programs", keywords "integration", severity "enhancement", and I will try to fix it.

It would also help if someone could tell me how Windows names the application when ASSOCSTR_FRIENDLYAPPNAME is absent?