Conflict for notepad with wine

[SelfRef]

The default notepad binary name at /usr/bin/notepad has name collision with notepad from wine. At least on Arch Linux, not sure about Debian. Probably the only option would be to change the name to be unique because it can be a common case to have wine already installed.

[rozniak]

Sugar, wine on Arch comes with a notepad? On Debian it doesn't, you just get wine and some of the utils (regedit).

Kind of a pickle, because I named it notepad so that you could launch it identical to Windows :weary:

[SelfRef]

Yeah. I was a little surprised when looked in Debian package and I didn't see a notepad binary in tree. Is it probably somewhere else in separate package? Or not at all? There is a full files tree for Arch.

Kind of a pickle, because I named it notepad so that you could launch it identical to Windows 😩

Hmm, at least notepad.exe is still free to use. Not canonical for Unix but still available option.

[Lili1228]

Every Wine comes with Notepad, it's just that Arch has a glorified symlink to wine notepad in /usr/bin

[rozniak]

Mmmm I'm really not keen on notepad.exe... if anything the WINE one should be called that, no? :sweat_smile:

Not sure atm

[SelfRef]

For compatibility purposes I've changed to wintc-notepad in AUR version. I wonder if other distros also have this symlink to notepad. If not, then it's only Arch-related.

[rozniak]

I think as part of the porting process need to check if this symlink for notepad exists when WINE is installed on the target distro. For the distros that have this sadly there is no choice but to use wintc-notepad really is there?

If so, I would probably suggest:

• Do not set the OUTPUT_NAME change for the distro (basically wrap in if (NOT ${WINTC_PKGMGR} STREQUAL "archpkg") here https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc/blob/master/windows/notepad/CMakeLists.txt#L43 )
• notepad.desktop will need to become notepad.desktop.in and configure_file'd first with this name as the executable (I think @OUTPUT_NAME_WINTC_NOTEPAD@ will work?)

[rozniak]

Have resolved this, for archpkg the output executable will be wintc-notepad. Will test this on a case-by-case basis in future when porting to check whether notepad will clash, and not rename the target if so.

Thanks again for your testing and patience @SelfRef !

[SelfRef]

Thanks again for the fix!

The solution with checking if wine symlink is in the filesystem wouldn't work because if user would install xfce-winxp-tc and then wine package then wine installation would fail. Conditional name is probably the best solution as in your fix.