http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12464
--- Comment #16 from Erik van Pienbroek erik-wine@vanpienbroek.nl 2012-06-01 09:45:54 CDT --- (In reply to comment #15)
If xdg-open is not present, probably want to fall back to the old gnome and then kde equivalents.
I don't see the benefit of duplicating the logic which is in the xdg-open script ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/scripts/xdg-open.in ) inside wine. xdg-open was first introduced in 2006 and became part of most Linux distributions around 2008. All mainstream Linux distributions should have it installed by default these days. The question here is whether we want provide support for native file associations integration for Linux distributions from before 2008 (and thus also obsolete environments like KDE3)