https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53260
--- Comment #5 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com --- (In reply to orowwith2os from comment #4)
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How are you trying to run the native application? It's not clear what you're asking for here.
What I am asking for is a popup menu that allows you to select a native application to open, say, a .txt file with, similar to how Windows will show a menu to select an app if there's no default app to run/open that file.
Where would this dialog be found/called from?
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the sentence, but assuming you mean how Wine would show the dialog: XDG desktop portals. Wine can call xdg-desktop-portal on the host and it'll redirect to the DE/WM equivalent. Flatpak utilizes this inside its sandbox to give access to the host system, like for file pickers.
No. I mean, what sequence of actions, under a wine program, would invoke this theoretical dialog. I.e., if I ran 'wine notepad', how would I get to the point of seeing this theoretical dialog?
The reason I ask is that the windows dialogs can't easily be changed to allow running unix binaries. They need to remain compatible with windows. FWIW, there's an existing bug for this that I couldn't find in a quick search.
OTOH, running a unix binary from windows should be supported, at least in some cases, see https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#How_do_I_launch_native_applications_from_a_Windo...