How to pass file as argument in .desktop file for wine app?

[zetah]

I'm running Wine 1.3.24 on Ubuntu 11.04

Please consider this .desktop file for Notepad application:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Notepad
Exec=wine "/home/zetah/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe" %F
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Wine
MimeType=text/plain

If I pass/drop text file on this notepad.desktop file, Notepad complains about error reading the file, as it can't resolve file path

If I put Exec line like this:

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Exec=wine "/home/zetah/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe" z:%F

then it reads passed file fine, but every time I start notepad.desktop file (so without passing file on it) "z:" argument is passed to Notepad which is undesired.

Notepad is just example application.

How can I resolve this problem, without scripts or other complications?

TIA

[vitamin]

If I pass/drop text file on this notepad.desktop file, Notepad complains about error reading the file, as it can't resolve file path

Of course that won't work. Wine's notepad needs windows paths, not *NIX paths. Use 'winepath' program to convert between the two.

You can open bug about it, but doubt it can be resolved that easy. The program that creates .desktop doesn't know if a parameter supposed to be a file or something else.

[zetah]

Thanks, I didn't know about `winepath` command. I used sh + sed + xargs as a workaround, but this is much better now