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.
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. 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. 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. Please feel free to send my patch upstream if you like it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wine depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libwine 0.9.31-1 Windows API Implementation (Librar ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds1-2 miscellaneous X clients Versions of packages wine recommends: ii msttcorefonts 1.8 Installer for Microsoft TrueType c ii wine-utils 0.9.31-1 Windows API Implementation (Utilit -- debconf information: wine/del_wine_conf: true wine/install_type: Autodetect
wine-start
Description: application/shellscript
