On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 05:36 +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > Alain Kalker skrev: > > Package: wine > > Version: 0.9.31-1 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > > > Currently, Wine has problems launching Windows applications associated > > with file types registered by Windows programs, and it also lacks > > integration with file managers to start a Windows program when a user > > opens a file. > > I'm not entire sure what you mean here. Do you mean file associations > that you add manually to your file managers, or file associations to be > added automatically by Wine? I don't think Wine creates them > automatically, and it probably shouldn't, either (things could probably > get really annoying if it did).
I meant that it should be possible for file associations created by Windows applications (to open documents that they support) to be exported to file managers (probably after user confirmation). > > The first problem is caused by the misinterpretation of a starting slash > > in the pathname: > > > > $ wine start /some/dir/file.txt > > > > doesn't open Notepad but gives usage info on start.exe instead, whereas > > > > $ wine start file.txt > > > > works as expected. > > If you need to use the full path, the ideal way would be to use > > $ wine start `winepath -w /some/dir/file.txt` Thanks, that fixes this problem. Sadly, winepath has no manpage (I could file a separate bug report on that), > > The second problem is the inconvenience of having to specify the full > > path to the Windows application for each file type that a user wishes to > > register. > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you use start, then Wine finds > the application by looking in the registry, you don't have to specify an > application path. > > > Please consider the included script 'wine-start' which will launch the > > Windows application associated with the file type of the specified file, > > and which also handles the leading slash problem. I think integrating > > this with the Debian menu system shouldn't be a problem at all. > > The Debian menu system? It doesn't have a mechanism for asking users for > command-line arguments, which your script needs. And it wouldn't > integrate it with file managers anyway... even if it could do that, you > create these file associations manually. I really don't see how you > meant to integrate this. Sorry, my bad. I meant the mailcap / mimeinfo system for associating applications with document types, see above. Regards, Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
