Bug 158034 - you can't run a .exe from Dolphin in MS-Windows
Summary: you can't run a .exe from Dolphin in MS-Windows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 16.12.2
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Penz
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Reported: 2008-02-19 08:01 UTC by skierpage
Modified: 2008-10-18 10:32 UTC (History)
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Description skierpage 2008-02-19 08:01:55 UTC
Version:           1.0.99 (using Devel)
Compiler:          MSVC 
OS:                MS Windows

If you click or right-click on a .exe file in Dolphin, you get an "Open with:" dialog.

So there's no way to just run an application.

I even tried navigating to C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe for "Open with", but that resulted in the alert:
  "Sorry - Dol...
  Error processing Exec field in"

I bet old Windows foo.COM executables have the same problem.

Windows .BAT batch files encounter a different problem, I get "Service 'C:/Program Files/KDE/share/applications/kde4/kwrite.desktop' is malformatted.", which is bug 156442.
Comment 1 xSacha 2008-05-18 12:53:16 UTC
I get the same problem.
However, when I attempt to open with cmd.exe, I get "Could not find file 'cmd.exe'"
Comment 2 xSacha 2008-05-18 13:48:58 UTC
This is a pretty serious bug. There are no known workarounds.
Comment 3 Lee Braiden 2008-06-25 03:12:03 UTC
There is a start.exe command in windows 2000+ that launches any file with the appropriate app.  I think it'll probably work for .exes too.  If so, this would constitute a workaround, and probably would solve the issue (at least in a temporary, ugly way), if .exe files were mapped to it via a mimetype.
Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2008-08-19 12:37:26 UTC
Adjusting the severity, as "critical" is for security issues, data loss or more, while this is just a missing feature (or misbehaviour) that does not affect anything else.
About the priority, let Peter decide (and thus put it back to "normal").
Comment 5 George Goldberg 2008-09-22 13:49:22 UTC
CC'ing KDE Windows list to this report, as its platform specific.
Comment 6 David Buckley 2008-09-24 00:14:37 UTC
A workaround for this:

Edit the mime type for .exe file to use cmd.exe with /c option.  This causes cmd to start the application and then exit. I can now run exe in both Konqueror and Dolphin.  Still working on batch files though.
Comment 7 Christian Ehrlicher 2008-10-18 10:32:02 UTC
Fixed in svn one week ago with svn r869705
Don't know if it's already backported to 4.1 by SaroEngels