2009/2/24 Zachary Goldberg <zg...@bluesata.com>: > 2009/2/23 Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com>: >> Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/ >>>> >>>> "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. >> - Dan > > I disagree on this point. Is malware via Wine on Linux really a > problem commonly affecting users? What happened to replicated > Window's behavior bug for bug? User X might ask: double clicking an > exe works in Windows why shouldn't it in Linux? Why should user X > have to go through an extra step to do something on Linux than they > would on Windows?
Thing is, this is not something that's explicitly within Wine. It's desktop integration at best, and file manager-specific at worst. I'd say it doesn't fall under the heading of "bug-for-bug compatibility". That's just me though. Comments from real Wine devs would be much more meaningful :)