[Bug 10719] New: Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

Summary: Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe
                    was excuted
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.47.
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-binary
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

By Defualt windows excutes exes in their directory. if wine did this it would
solve alot of problems. as most progam are executed this way in window they
assume all the files they need are in same dir for a work around i useually
create a script to change dir but this shouldn't be needed. but lanuching in
different dir would have to be done another way

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

Stefan Dösinger  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Stefan Dösinger   2007-12-08 08:20:14 ---
No, windows doesn't do that.

If you double-click on a .exe in explorer. it is executed from that directory,
because you navigated there first. If you run foo.exe from the command line
prompt you cded there as well. But try to run ....\somedir\foo.exe, then
foo.exe is *NOT* run in somedir.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #2 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-12-08 11:50:33 ---
Closing invalid.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

[e-mail] changed:

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             Status|CLOSED                      |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |
            Version|0.9.47.                     |0.9.50.

--- Comment #3 from [e-mail]  2007-12-13 19:45:04 ---
ok so its only in explorer but still a problem when trying to run from nautilus
(not sure if its a problem in any other file browsers probably is since all
linux apps dont run from there own directory and that you never exec linux apps
from nautilus)
as it runs from / i like to use nautilus alot for windows apps

perhaps a system that figures out what directory it was in when executed from a
file browser

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

James Hawkins  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #4 from James Hawkins   2007-12-13 19:51:50 ---
You need to read why this bug has been closed as invalid.  Wine performs
*exactly* the same way concerning current directories as Windows.  This will
not be changed, as any such change would be incorrect.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

James Hawkins  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from James Hawkins   2007-12-13 19:52:16 ---
Closing invalid again.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #6 from [e-mail]  2007-12-13 23:24:35 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> You need to read why this bug has been closed as invalid.  Wine performs
> *exactly* the same way concerning current directories as Windows.  This will
> not be changed, as any such change would be incorrect.

I did read and launching apps from nautilus [just reports missing file errors]
dosen't work as explorer and no linux user should not have to work from
wine-explorer to get this to work. its terribly annoying and if none of you can
see that try it yourself Steam [ and starwars pod racer are good examples]

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #7 from Stefan Dösinger   2007-12-14 03:38:20 ---
You'll have to fix how Nautilus calls wine then. Maybe the mimetype declaration
allows you to set a flag where to start the app.

Konqueror runs Steam just fine, fwiw.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #8 from Stefan Dösinger   2007-12-14 03:40:55 ---
Actually, I take the konqueror argument back, Steam fails there as well; It
just updates fine initially, then fails. Still it is a problem how Wine is
called, not how Wine deals with the path.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #9 from [e-mail]  2007-12-14 04:17:13 ---
i made a nautilus script
but you can't by default launch nautilus scripts nor use it as a normal script
i was thinking of a wrapper that finds the path from the file manager and
executes the wine app there
it would be better than submiting a bug to every file manger about how to
handle a specific mime type

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #10 from Austin English   2007-12-14 15:30:47 ---
File a bug with Nautilus for this. Wine provides winepath
(http://wiki.winehq.org/winepath), which can convert between unix and windows
file paths. Wine provides the correct windows implementation, which is what
wine is intended to do. This is something that the file manager needs to
implement.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #11 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-12-14 15:57:28 ---
IMHO Wine should have some sort of wrapper script to be used by Linux native
programs to call it via XDG type mechanism. This is more related to distros'
integrators then Wine itself.

So if anyone wants to send such a script with appropriate changes to Makefile
and "wine.desktop".

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #12 from [e-mail]  2007-12-15 09:50:39 ---
#! /bin/sh
# Launch Wine app in its own directory
# switches are not passed as of yet
#
path="`expr "$@" : '(.*)/'`"
basename="`expr "//$@" : '.*/([^/]*)'`"
cd "$path"
wine $basename

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

--- Comment #13 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-12-15 10:57:05 ---
No, you have to use 'winepath' program to convert paths.

[Bug 10719] Default Directory should be the directory witch the exe was excuted

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719

James Hawkins  changed:

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          Component|_obsolete_binary            |-unknown