RE: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Koshelev, Misha Vladislavo
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Vincent Povirk >On 8/9/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> still be able to start both). Using this approach would also solve any >> problems with wine's start not necessarily having the appropriate >> command line parameter support. I am startin

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Vincent Povirk
On 8/9/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > still be able to start both). Using this approach would also solve any > problems with wine's start not necessarily having the appropriate > command line parameter support. I am starting to like/favor the > install-time association approach.

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Misha Koshelev
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 13:24 +0200, Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Another drawback of using a general "wine start" to call the windows apps is > that we sacrifice a bit of desktop integration. It would be cool if the Linux > mime type generated from the wine registry contained the application's name >

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Dösinger
> You will have to forgive my ignorance but I guess my other concern would > be is there even a way for GNOME to handle such verbs at the moment? I > was looking at > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec > and it seems like there is plans for this but, at least according

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Misha Koshelev
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:59 -0400, Vincent Povirk wrote: > Wine start is not quite what I had in mind. Each file type can have > multiple "verbs" (such as open, edit, print..), and I'd like GNOME to > give me the option to use any of the verbs that are available. Wine > start is apparently hard-cod

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Vincent Povirk
Wine start is not quite what I had in mind. Each file type can have multiple "verbs" (such as open, edit, print..), and I'd like GNOME to give me the option to use any of the verbs that are available. Wine start is apparently hard-coded to use the "open" verb. That may mean it's simple to modify i

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Misha Koshelev
> To register those verbs for Linux desktops, some sort of command-line > wrapper around ShellExecute would be needed. I think this is a good > idea anyway. Does Windows have anything like that? Is it worth it for > me to try writing something like that based on winelib? Well this is exactly the st

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Steven Edwards
On 8/8/07, Vincent Povirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it is right now, we have a filetype/association system in Wine's > registry, and we have a completely separate one in most Linux > desktops. They do not talk to each other. Wine's system relies > primarily on extensions because that's what W

exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Vincent Povirk
This was something I thought we wanted for wine for a long time, but I can't find any literature suggesting that's the case. So I'll just explain it here. As it is right now, we have a filetype/association system in Wine's registry, and we have a completely separate one in most Linux desktops. The