file-roller associates itself with windows executables that it can't handle

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: file-roller

Intrepid and Jaunty both have a very frustrating bug for Wine users - double clicking a Windows executable causes it to open in File Roller and generate a very cryptic "Null" error report.

In /usr/share/applications/file-roller.desktop, file-roller associates itself with "application/x-ms-dos-executable", which is what causes this behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

The attached patch fixes the issue entirely. Please sponsor. Thank you!

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Oops, sorry, there were two .patch files in that debdiff for some reason - please use this one instead.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank, I will wait for upstream comments on the issue though, they probably listed there is because auto-exe zip can be opened by file-roller for example

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

unsubscribing the sponsors the change is a workaround

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Can I have an update on this? This is still an issue in Lucid and it's really annoying.

I still don't see any value in opening .exes with file-roller by default when Wine is installed. Is there a way for Wine to take priority now? I understand this wasn't the case in Karmic.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

For what it's worth upstream says we should make Wine the default handler as well.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Qouting upstream file-roller developer: "this is done to support self-extracting archives, anyway you can fix this by setting wine as the default handler of .exe files. This is more a distribution bug than a file-roller bug." I agree with Scott Ritchie, that the ms-dos executable associations for file-roller should be removed.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I was going to provide another patch for Natty but it seems when you install Wine now it takes the double click action by default instead.

What troubles me is that I have no idea why, or if this will be true for every user.

[turbolad (turbolad995)]

Does this same bug result in the Minecraft java (.jar) file being opened with the Archive Manager, instead of OpenJDK, when the .jar file is double left-clicked?

[Kevin Havens (bootloop-deactivatedaccount)]

Still a bug in trusty.

Come on, is this gonna be fixed?