On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Vincent Povirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds a switch, /startfile, to explorer.exe, used as "wine > explorer /startfile filename". It accepts a windows or unix path. It > attempts to mimic what windows explorer does to start files and > provide some visible (gui) feedback when it doesn't work. The idea is > that wine.desktop can then be modified to use this switch instead of > wine, solving the following problems when starting exe files from file > managers: > * File managers typically do not set the working directory to the > directory that contains an exe when they start it. Setting the working > directory is the default behavior for windows explorer, and many > windows programs rely on it. > * File managers naturally use the unix path to start files, and the > wine binary passes the unix path along to the exe it starts, rather > than translating it to a windows path (this can and probably should > also be fixed somewhere else). > * Windows explorer always starts exe files with quotes around the path > in the command-line, even if the path does not contain spaces. The > wine binary does not (and probably should not) add quotes in this > situation. A few apps rely on the quotes. See > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5224#c14 > > My last attempt created a new winelib program; apparently this > functionality fits in explorer. > > -- > Vincent Povirk > > > >
Patches should go to wine-patches, not wine-devel.
