When you double click on a .exe file in Nautilus, the file is opened with file-roller, which leads to an error. You have to right-click on choose Open with Wine, or make it the default application to open .exe files. This also happens with new users, so that doesn't come from a buggy migrated account. The reason is that gnome-file-roller.desktop registers the application/x-ms-dos-executable MIME type, and for some reason with a higher priority than Wine. I don't really know why file-roller says it supports .exe, since it doesn't seem to be able to open them... So maybe that's a file-roller bug, but I guess you know better than I do. This is on Fedora 15, wine 1.3.19.
It would be nice to have Wine as the default application for all .exe files. file-roller does this because it can extract the compressed files. I wonder if this is something that just needs a setting changed in either one of the two applications packaging in Fedora (also if other distributions are having this problem)? This is current after an upgrades-testing wine-1.3.21.
I don't think the real bug is in file-roller. Wine should just have a higher priority than file-roller, that's all. (This works in Ubuntu, BTW.)
I found this https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/msg00002.html "Integration into GNOME - Clicking .exe : Isn't this doable via adding a single mimetype in GNOME ? What happens in GNOME if you open a .7z file without p7zip installed, for instance ? (i'm asking because i don't run GNOME :p). At least we must remove the mimetype that associates Win32 binaries to file-roller." According to http://developer.gnome.org/shared-mime-info-spec/ "The MIME database does NOT store user preferences (such as a user's preferred application for handling files of a particular type). It may be used to store static information, such as that files of a certain type may be viewed with a particular application." Maybe Wine's package should remove file-roller's mime attribute to .exe? According to this http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_gnome-vfs-mime.htm possibly changing which of the .keys is used may solve the issue.
(In reply to comment #3) > According to http://developer.gnome.org/shared-mime-info-spec/ > "The MIME database does NOT store user preferences (such as a user's preferred > application for handling files of a particular type). It may be used to store > static information, such as that files of a certain type may be viewed with a > particular application." > > Maybe Wine's package should remove file-roller's mime attribute to .exe? The excerpt you quote doesn't mean what you seems to think it does. The shared MIME info spec only defines how to register and detect MIME types. It doesn't handle associations between applications and MIME types at all. This is handled by another spec (see below). > According to this http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_gnome-vfs-mime.htm > possibly changing which of the .keys is used may solve the issue. GNOME-VFS has died many year ago... ;-) I can see three solutions: 1) Fix the line application/x-ms-dos-executable=gnome-file-roller.desktop; in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list to use Wine. The problem is that the file is installed by default, so it means people without Wine would lose the file-roller association without reason (not a big deal though). 2) Change that line when installing Wine. That shouldn't raise issues, but I'm not sure that's in the Fedora policy of packages install. 3) Install/edit the file /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list. This file is defined by the MIME actions spec[1] as one way of changing MIME associations when installing an app: > However, note that the next section provides another solution for ISV > applications which want to ensure they become the default application after > being installed: they can edit [or create] the global mimeapps.list file in > /usr/share/applications. This is also a solution for system administrators > who wish to set up a default application ordering for their users. So far, I've not been able to determine how Ubuntu is setting this association. They don't seem to do anything special, and yet (by chance ?) /usr/share/mime/mimeinfo.cache has the right order: /mnt/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop;file-roller.desktop; Maybe the explanation is that their /usr/share/applications/defaults.list doesn't mention file-roller for application/x-ms-dos-executable, which impacts the order. That would mean removing that line would be enough. That wouldn't hurt anyway, since file-roller is already registered as being able to open .exe, and it's unlikely any other app would claim to open them. 1: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
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Not fixed in 19 - Gnome now even prevents to select wine via Nautilus. It's a complete usability disaster.
The command-line application "mimeopen -d path/to.exe" is a nice helper to get things into a more usable state again.
Still not fixed in fedora 20!!!!!