I've successfully used Wine to run PortableApps in Ubuntu. Next issue: can I name a WinXP portable application program, running in PortableApps, to be the default program that runs when I double-click on a certain file type in Ubuntu?
For instance, in Nautilus, I double-click on a .wav file. I want my favorite Windows XP WAV player to open up and play that .wav. Can it be done?
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I don't know anything about Wine as I don't really use Linux, but what might be useful for you to know is that our launchers just pass their commandline-arguments to the application itself.
"Der Klügere gibt nach, deshalb regieren Dumme die Welt."
it can be done, provided the file is runnable under wine at all and you set up association in your linux pointing to that file. If the file does not need any extra parameters or arguments it will be recognized as windows app and it will be run via wine automatically.
But is that reasonable? They have dozens of players for linux doing the same job.
Just curious: which special player for WAV do you need which is not avaiable for linux? Windows media player? (This one will not run under wine anyway so simple.)
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland