Re: Is it a bug of nautilus or gnome?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:09 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:41 +0800, Star Liu wrote:
> > > Here is my problem, I can run a exe file(built by monodevelop on
> > > debian sid amd64) directly from command line like this:
> > > Desktop:~/MyLife/Mono/OFSM_IDE/bin/Debug# ./OFSM_IDE.exe
> > > but the same exe file cannot be launched by double click the file in
> > > gnome, I heard that it's because the mono package maker has  installed
> [..]
> > 
> > Weird. I don't think we do anything that should make binfmt break. So, I
> > can't really say why this is not working for you.
> 
> What would happen if there is a mime type association && .desktop with
> e.g. wine for .exe files? Would nautilus use wine or binfmt?

It depends on the mime type. For files marked as executable of a
mimetype deriving from application/x-executable we lauch, and for
executables of mimetype deriving from text/plain we ask whether to
launch or open.