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

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





--- Comment #17 from Bamm Gabriana <bammzilla at gabriana.com>  2008-05-30 20:18:51 ---
> KDE did not automatically give you the option to open .doc files with Word
> Viewer when you installed it, did it? If it did, that would be bad (because
> the application shortcut cannot be used to open files).

I did not understand what you mean. However, a shortcut to Word Viewer was
automatically created in the menu. Double-click a DOC file, and the Open With
dialog shows up. I select Word Viewer. Now I double click on DOC and the viewer
opens but no file.

I can also do, from Konqueror, Settings > Configure Konqueror > File
Associations and then add *.doc, and add an application to open it. A list of
programs shows up. First I add OpenOffice, then I add Word Viewer.

> Judging by what you tried, it seems opening things with "Wine Windows
> Emulator" to use a separate and invisible "Wine associations" is not the
> most intuitive way to solve a problem of the form "I want to open .x files
> in program Y that I have installed in Wine."