[Bug 12464] ShellExecute does not integrate well with external handlers

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12464

Erik van Pienbroek <erik-wine at vanpienbroek.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-wine at vanpienbroek.nl> 2012-05-30 08:11:35 CDT ---
With wine 1.5.4 it still isn't possible to have ShellExecute call xdg-open (or
use another centralized native file association database) as a fallback path
when no file association in the windows registry could be found for the
requested extension.

Take for example the .pdf extension. On my Linux environment I've got evince
installed which can open .pdf files. In my wine environment there's no pdf
reader installed and therefore no file association mentioned in the wine
windows registry.

If I try to open some random .pdf file using wine start.exe then the following
error is returned:

Application could not be started, or no application associated with the
specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: Success.

The expected behaviour is that ShellExecute also tries to search a centralized
native file association database (like the one from xdg-open) when no direct
file association could be found in the windows registry

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