[Bug 12464] ShellExecute does not integrate well with external handlers

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12464

--- Comment #5 from Robert Millan   2009-06-02 07:34:48 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I can confirm this behaviour with Wine 1.1.22.
> - Shell execute on a PDF file does not invoke the native Linux PDF Viewer.
> - Shell execute on a HTML link does not invoke the default Linux Web Browser.

Hi,

Just to point out: the API to do this is not in Linux, it's userland stuff. You
need to check the FreeDesktop xdg-open(1) utility.