[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 #5 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> ---
(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

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