This sounds interesting to me. I will be pleased to test your program with Nautilus (the Gnome equivalent to Konqueror). I will search for your submission on the ML archives, if you have a newer version please tell me how to get it.
Compiled and works fine with KDE (didn't have to change the directory permission as you wrote).
Good! If I find the time I'll try to improve it(Icons, Names, Stability, better searching the registry)
I didn't figure out how to use these .desktop files with gnome but that is not so important because you can easily adjust the mime type settings manually ("open with" -> winestart in file properties).
I don't use gnome, so I can't help you here :-( But AFAIR the .desktop files are slightly outdated and both KDE and gnome support a new freedesktop.org format. Maybe I should do some Investigation ans switch to this format.
I don't think that these .desktop files directly, but theres a kstart
program
which allows you to open any file KDE knows, and this works from literally any application.
I didn't get this sentence.
What I meant with this was, that KDE offers a 'kdestart' program. This program is similar to winestart. It searches the KDE mime database and starts the ascociated application. This can be used to asociate all unknown Mimetypes in Mozilla and other applications, so if Mozilla doesn't know the Mime type, it automatically asks KDE for help. It can be used in wine too. I've seen the oposite of winestart somewhere on this list which allows Windows Applications is wine to start native Linux apps transparently. So you can click on an OpenOffice Document in Internet Explorer and the Linux OpenOffice.Org will start and load the Document.
With a little work all this could improve the Desktop Integration of Wine a lot :-)
Stefan