File associations broken after installing wine

[witek]

I installed wine from Salix repo and I notice that .doc files are now handled by wine`s notepad and PNGs and JPGs are handled by winecore.exe. Hmm.... I`m not sure when that happened as I can remember jpg associated with Okular after KDE was installed. I`m not even sure if that happened after wine installation or maybe I messed up something

EDIT:
I fixed this according to Gapan`s advice from another thread to create file /usr/share/applications/defaults.list containing:

Code: Select all

image/png=viewnior.desktop
image/jpeg=viewnior.desktop
image/gif=viewnior.desktop
image/tiff=viewnior.desktop
image/x-wmf=viewnior.desktop

[djemos]

This is b/c of wine. Wine did this. So the first time you open a txt file or graphic associated with kwrite and okular.

[gapan]

Yes, it was caused by wine. Wine seems to have all these filetypes associated with it. Perhaps we should remove them.

[zAchAry]

How to set GPicView to default image viewer:

Code: Select all

xdg-mime default gpicview.desktop `grep 'MimeType=' /usr/share/applications/gpicview.desktop | sed -e 's/.*=//' -e 's/;/ /g'`

Note: xdg-utils is needed here. It's a tool released by Portland project of Freedesktop.org. Most modern Linux distros have this tool installed by default.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/GPicView

[witek]

Yes, it was caused by wine. Wine seems to have all these filetypes associated with it. Perhaps we should remove them.

There seems to be a whole bunch of wine-extension-blabla.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications/ . I guess these files are responsible for this insane behaviour - this should be changed in future releases. I`m setting up a small network with several computers with Salix and my opinion is: the distro is near perfection except this insane file associations I mentioned here and elswhere (pdf, ps)

[djemos]

Deleting all these wine-extension-blabla.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications/ solved the problem.

[pwatk]

I haven't needed to use wine for years but I would suggest removing all the file type/mime type associations except the ones for Windows .exe binaries. I can't see anyone wanting to explicitly use wine for anything else!

[Duncan_Idaho]

I haven't needed to use wine for years but I would suggest removing all the file type/mime type associations except the ones for Windows .exe binaries. I can't see anyone wanting to explicitly use wine for anything else!

I agree with you

[JRD]

I agree too

[christian]

Agree, I will fix this with the bugfix-Upgrade to wine 1.2.1 by removing the associations except the ones for .exe etc.