[Bug 53260] Wine won't open distro-installed text editors and the like

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53260

--- Comment #6 from orowwith2os at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Austin English from comment #5)
> (In reply to orowwith2os from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Austin English from comment #3)
> > > (In reply to orowwith2os from comment #2)
> > > > (In reply to Austin English from comment #1)
> > > > > How are you trying to run the native application? It's not clear what you're
> > > > > asking for here.
> > > > 
> > > > What I am asking for is a popup menu that allows you to select a native
> > > > application to open, say, a .txt file with, similar to how Windows will show
> > > > a menu to select an app if there's no default app to run/open that file.
> > > 
> > > Where would this dialog be found/called from?
> > 
> > I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the sentence, but assuming you
> > mean how Wine would show the dialog:
> > XDG desktop portals. Wine can call xdg-desktop-portal on the host and it'll
> > redirect to the DE/WM equivalent. Flatpak utilizes this inside its sandbox
> > to give access to the host system, like for file pickers.
> 
> No. I mean, what sequence of actions, under a wine program, would invoke
> this theoretical dialog. I.e., if I ran 'wine notepad', how would I get to
> the point of seeing this theoretical dialog?
> 
> The reason I ask is that the windows dialogs can't easily be changed to
> allow running unix binaries. They need to remain compatible with windows.
> FWIW, there's an existing bug for this that I couldn't find in a quick
> search.
> 
> OTOH, running a unix binary from windows should be supported, at least in
> some cases, see
> https://wiki.winehq.org/
> FAQ#How_do_I_launch_native_applications_from_a_Windows_application.3F

I don't know how specifically this would work, since I don't have the necessary
skills to implement it myself, but if an application inside Wine tries to open
a .txt file for example, it should pass that to the host for it to pick what
app to open the file inside, is what I'm thinking of. 

Maybe something like how wine cmd works can be used  to implement this
functionality, but I'm not sure. I'm just a gal on the internet who wants to
help improve apps through bug reports and feature requests, in the hopes that
more new users can switch to Linux with little issue.

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