[Bug 12380] Microsoft Word Viewer 2003: Cannot associate with *.doc files

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Fri May 30 19:07:07 CDT 2008


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12380


Bamm Gabriana <bammzilla at gabriana.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |




--- Comment #15 from Bamm Gabriana <bammzilla at gabriana.com>  2008-05-30 19:07:06 ---
> env WINEPREFIX="/home/bamm/.wine" wine start.exe /Unix %U

I'm using Kubuntu and Mandriva.

Ah, so now I see what you're at. You're solution was to associate it with START
not with Word Viewer. So *.doc is still not associated with Word Viewer in
Konqueror. Rather, you used the fact that *.doc is associated with Word Viewer
in Explorer.

What I want, is for a user to associate extensions to programs in the /same
way/ they do for normal Linux programs - that is, you can select a program from
the set of existing shortcuts on the applications menu to open it in.

Also, your solution relies on the fact that the installer adds the associations
to the Wine registry.

Let's take a look at my other example, IrfanView. By default IrfanView does NOT
make any associations in the registry. So associating *.png with "wine start"
will not help. Besides, the intuitive approach for any user is to select
IrfanView from the menu, and associate it with its Desktop file.

So, I digress. I'm reopening this until Wine itself can correct the paths it
sends to the application it runs.


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