Bug 1000543

Summary: Wine is not registered as application to open application/x-ms-dos-executable files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: František Zatloukal <fzatlouk>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: andreas.bierfert, christianklomp, fmuellner, mike, otaylor, samkraju, stefan, walters
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Description František Zatloukal 2013-08-23 15:39:15 UTC
Description of problem:
Wine is not registered as application to open application/x-ms-dos-executable files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.7.0-1.fc20
1.7.0-1.fc19

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install wine
2.Try to open some exe file through GUI context menus

Actual results:
Wine is not in the list of application to open file, so it must be opened with terminal (by typing wine file.exe).

Expected results:
Wine should be the default application to open exe files instead of file-roller or other archive manager.

Additional info:
I've tested this in Fedora 19 and Fedora 20. Bug probably exists in Rawhide too, since there is the same version as in Fedora 20.

Comment 1 Andreas Bierfert 2013-08-25 14:34:47 UTC
This is certainly not correct. Wine registers these mime-types via wine.desktop (in the wine-desktop package). However, it may be your desktop-environment which does not respect or handle this correctly.

Comment 2 František Zatloukal 2013-08-26 10:28:58 UTC
Ok, I see KDE detected wine properly, but Gnome didn't. Should I report it as a bug against Gnome?

Comment 3 Christian Klomp 2013-09-10 15:16:57 UTC
I've had this too.
One can either set "application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop" as a default application in ~/.local/share/application/mimeapps.list

Or set "NoDisplay=true" to false in /usr/share/application/wine.desktop

Problem with the first is that it is per user and with the second you"ll get a pretty useless launcher in your menu.
I think it would be better if NoDisplay only affects the menu and not the file associations (the open with menu), or something similar.

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