Just for the record winebrowser already seems to support what is needed without any changes, so need for winemime. The following does the trick for pdf: REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf] @="pdffile" "Content Type"="application/pdf" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pdffile] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pdffile\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pdffile\shell\open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pdffile\shell\open\command] @="winebrowser \"%1\"" Roderick On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Roderick Colenbrander<thunderbir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Brian Vincent<brian.vinc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Roderick Colenbrander >> <thunderbir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> For the past few days I have been looking at MIME handling in Wine. A >>> program I'm using uses CreateProcess to launch a pdf file and I would >>> like to use the default native pdf viewer. >> >> I think it would be useful to have two different checkbox option in winecfg >> that ask: >> >> 1. "Always open files with native application if available?" >> 2. "Ask me whether to open with file formats with a native application or >> my Windows application?" >> >> (Optionally, saying "No" to #1 could imply #2. However, I think it might be >> clearer to explicitly have it as an option.) >> >> For instance, in the case of PDF's, say you have a great native viewer >> available and you want to use that viewer to view all PDF's. However, you >> also have Adobe Acrobat installed under Wine (hypothetical, I have no idea >> if that app works) and that's what you like to use for editing. You >> probably want to use the viewer most of the time, but every once in a while >> you'd probably like to be prompted to use Acrobat so you can edit the PDF. >> >> What would also be slick is to have the Windows Explorer "Open With..." >> functionality provide a list of native apps as well. >> >> -Brian >> > > The XDG spec which is what I would use defines how to find a program > which can handle the format (a default handler). The user can override > the handler but I'm not sure whether the spec also defines a way to > query which programs can handle the format. This would be needed for > the 'Open With...' stuff if it is possible then it should be done from > within shell32. > > What I'm interested in at this point is a method to add native apps to > handle opening of files (using HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT like on Windows). I > propose to do this using a winemime program/script. The tool would use > 'xdg-open' to get the default handler (when the user selects a > different handler from the default handler on the system, his > preference is selected). I'm not sure whether the tool needs to be a > script, program or whether it should be part of shell32. If it is a > script should xdg-open be forked or ported to C for a winelib version > of winemime? > > Roderick >
