I have attached a patch that adds a wrapper script to Wine for starting files from Linux file managers such as nautilus and modifies wine.desktop to use the script for exe, msi, lnk, chm, and hlp files.
The wrapper sets the working directory to the directory containing the file and starts it using wine start with the full windows path. If wine start fails, it displays an error dialog. As I understand it, this is very close to the behavior when double-clicking a file in windows explorer.
Please comment.
These issues worry me in particular:
I cannot double-click on exe files to open them myself because of http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8386 (nautilus is getting confused about file types). As I understand it, this is a separate problem (and should be fixed?), but I wonder if I can do anything about it.
Nautilus is not using Wine to start hlp files. I put in every mime type I could come up with for hlp, including application/x-extension-hlp.
Wine does not show in the "Open With" list in nautilus. This makes the wrapper a little bit harder to use for applications installed in wine to handle specific filetypes.
Is the list of file extensions I decided to use reasonable?
Is the list of MIME types I decided to use for those extensions reasonable? Is there some way Wine could help the system recognize some of these types? I don't know much about this topic, unfortunately, and I'm not very confident about my list.
I cannot test the kdialog command in the script myself because kdialog consistently fails to display things here.
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Vincent Povirk