Open With show multiple instances of Open with a "Wine Application" when opening JPEG files only

[Lonoy]

When I right click on a JPEG image file then Open With> there are 4 instances of Open With " a Wine application" instead of the standard one.

Only found this to occur on JPEG images, does not happen on Gif or PNGs

Issue does not occur when a JPEG is in the Garbage Bin.

Using Mint 7 64 bit.

Only program I use with Wine is Dreamweaver. All image editing is done through Gimp.

Thanks.

[emorrp1 (emorrp1)]

Thank you for reporting a bug in Linux Mint. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce your problem, so it's likely that you've changed something as root (using sudo) that has messed up your configuration. If you can reproduce the bug in a fresh install (probably a virtual machine, or a new user account) then please detail the steps necessary, including any extra software you added and all software versions. Please also check out the Linux Mint Forums, where there are many more people available to help out with diagnosing any problems you have. You might also like to check out this article: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html This is a standard response, so it may not be entirely appropriate.

Specifically: which version of wine have you installed? where did you install it from? what wine apps have you installed? what wine apps have you installed to do with photo management, or anything that can use jpegs? what program does each option open up in? anything else that might be relevant?

[Lonoy (todd-nodaleks)]

1.1.29
Synaptic
Dreamweaver only.
Only use Gimp for photo management, never anything else. Edit gifs, pngs and jpegs which are all used within Dreamweaver. When editing the image files I open them outside of Dreamweaver, never inside.

Dreamweaver's preferences does has the ability to set a editor to different file types. I have nothing set though for any image files and the settings for jpegs are the same for gif - which is no editor set.

Each option opens no program but delivers a Wine popup saying "Error File not found"

Did not have this issue with Mint 6 64 bit using older version of Wine.

Problem still remains after I reinstalled Wine.

[emorrp1 (emorrp1)]

I don't suppose you could test this on Ubuntu (either real or virtual) could you?

[Lonoy (todd-nodaleks)]

As requested. Only one instance of Open with showing in Ubuntu.

[Lonoy (todd-nodaleks)]

Wine isn't showing at all as an option on that screenshot I just noticed. I will look into it.

[Lonoy (todd-nodaleks)]

I can't get Dreamweaver 8 to work on Ubuntu 9.04 and thus can't try to replicate the issue there. The above screenshot is with DW8 installed via Wine but Wine does not show as an option of Open with.

There are a few work around on the net to get DW8 working but most are as long as a football field. As DW8 is working fine on Mint I will leave it at that. If you wish to either remove this bug or put it at the bottom of the list is fine by me, I will resubmit/update with the next Mint release if it occurs.

This does beg the question why though DW8 had a seamless install via Wine (same version) on Mint 7 while it has major issues with Ubuntu, from what I have been reading anyway. Another plus for Linux Mint:)

Thanks

[emorrp1 (emorrp1)]

Very, very odd. There seem to be several areas where Mint seems to just work better than Ubuntu for no apparent reason (other than clem's amazing QA) Anyhow, still can't accurately reproduce this on a fresh install (i.e. which wine repo, install steps etc.) so I'll just leave it as incomplete, so if you discover more info you can post it here. The bug report will automatically expire after 60 days of no activity, but feel free to re-open if you discover the same on a fresh install of Helena.

[Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov)]

Hello

I wrote the MIME type association code for Wine, and I know what's wrong here.

A Windows application installed under Wine can associate itself with file extensions to open. Wine will try to import those associations into your freedesktop.org desktop. (Lonoy probably didn't install the Windows application that tries to associate with JPEG files, and so couldn't reproduce the bug).

Now the application name in your "Open With" menu that Wine adds, comes from the ASSOCSTR_FRIENDLYAPPNAME registry value, which is optional on Windows, but not optional on freedesktop.org. Thus Wine has to invent something to put there, and it puts "A Wine application".

If you consider this a problem, please open an upstream bug on http://bugs.winehq.org, component "programs", keywords "integration", severity "enhancement", and I will try to fix it.

It would also help if someone could tell me how Windows names the application when ASSOCSTR_FRIENDLYAPPNAME is absent?

[Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov)]

Hi

My patch for this was just committed to Wine (http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=b585b24397f93b3a323b2f3674b4b5d61bc035a6), so Wine versions starting with 1.1.34 (releasing on 4th December 2009) will work fine.

[Lonoy (todd-nodaleks)]

Happy to report this is no longer an issue. Using Mint 8 64 bit with Wine 1.0.1

[emorrp1 (emorrp1)]

Lonoy: that's an older (more stable) wine version, the bug was reported in v1.1.29 and is possibly fixed in 1.1.34 (available as wine1.2 in the wine ppa in karmic/helena)