On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Brian Vincentbrian.vincent@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmail.com wrote:
For the past few days I have been looking at MIME handling in Wine. A program I'm using uses CreateProcess to launch a pdf file and I would like to use the default native pdf viewer.
I think it would be useful to have two different checkbox option in winecfg that ask:
1. "Always open files with native application if available?" 2. "Ask me whether to open with file formats with a native application or my Windows application?"
(Optionally, saying "No" to #1 could imply #2. However, I think it might be clearer to explicitly have it as an option.)
For instance, in the case of PDF's, say you have a great native viewer available and you want to use that viewer to view all PDF's. However, you also have Adobe Acrobat installed under Wine (hypothetical, I have no idea if that app works) and that's what you like to use for editing. You probably want to use the viewer most of the time, but every once in a while you'd probably like to be prompted to use Acrobat so you can edit the PDF.
What would also be slick is to have the Windows Explorer "Open With..." functionality provide a list of native apps as well.
-Brian
The XDG spec which is what I would use defines how to find a program which can handle the format (a default handler). The user can override the handler but I'm not sure whether the spec also defines a way to query which programs can handle the format. This would be needed for the 'Open With...' stuff if it is possible then it should be done from within shell32.
What I'm interested in at this point is a method to add native apps to handle opening of files (using HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT like on Windows). I propose to do this using a winemime program/script. The tool would use 'xdg-open' to get the default handler (when the user selects a different handler from the default handler on the system, his preference is selected). I'm not sure whether the tool needs to be a script, program or whether it should be part of shell32. If it is a script should xdg-open be forked or ported to C for a winelib version of winemime?
Roderick