Re: tools: add a wrapper script for starting files from file managers and make wine.desktop use it

[Vincent Povirk]

Please do not commit this patch as explained in comment 18 of bug
5224: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5224#c18

Windows explorer's default behavior is to always start programs with
double quotes around their filenames, even if the filename does not
contain a space. Apparently, this is impossible (or more difficult
than it's worth) to do in a shell script so I will need to rewrite
this as a winelib program.

On Feb 13, 2008 7:44 PM, Vincent Povirk  wrote:
> This is an attempt to solve the problems with double-clicking .exe
> files from file managers.
>
> The patch adds a script named winestartfile that mimics what happens
> on windows when a file is double-clicked in explorer. It starts the
> file using start.exe with the full path to the file and in the
> directory that contains it.
>
> It also modifies the wine.desktop shortcut to use that script when
> opening .exe files.
>
> My previous attempt at this incorrectly ran start without giving a
> full path (so that if a file named start.exe exists in the current
> path, it will take precedence) and probably tried to change too many
> things at once.
>
> --
> Vincent Povirk