New subject: [Bug 35188] File extension associations do not work e.g. .pdf

20 Dec 2013


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35188
Bug ID: 35188
           Summary: File extension associations do not work e.g. .pdf
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.8
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: loader
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: af@muc.de
    Classification: Unclassified
Double-Clicking a file with a yet unregistered extension (e.g. pdf or .tif)
results in a popup stating "Success". Nothing more happens.
The FAQ 7.5 explains how to create an association, but this does not work.
Running regedit with a file having the shown contents results in just nothing.
regedit returns 0, though.
Running this in a wineconsole works:
winebrowser file.pdf
starting the evince (on my Fedora-19), which is basically great.
So i tried to dump the entire registry from the regedit in order to edit
it manually (though frankly i would not know, what to type in there).
This does not work either. but i guess this is a different bug. When trying
to export the entire registry regedit exits with status 1.
The actual problem i have is with the "Elster" program (German tax declaration
software from the German tax authorities). It is marked "Platinum", what i can
basically confirm. Nonetheless, when trying to print something or to preview,
it does not work. I get a popup, that the program cannot show the file
z:\some\temporary\path\name.pdf . However, the PDF file has been created. It
seems, this software leaves the preview and printing up to the PDF viewer
software, whatever that is. In an strace i see, that the software calls:
execve("z:\some\temporary\path\name.pdf", ...)
what makes no sense. I guess, the layer inbetween in wine did not make a match
to recognize the extension and to start the respective program. So my guess is,
that the actual problem is what i explained above, where it is easier to
understand.
P.S.: May i note, that i consider wine kind of a miracle. Really. And imo it's
one of the most important projects in the open source area.
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