I recently installed Okular & Kile from the Windows Store. On installation, the Kile System Checker reports not finding Okular. I was able to get it to find Okular by figuring how to make a .bat file start Okular and dropping that file into C:\Windows\System32. Because Okular is a Windows Store App, the .bat needs to call explorer.exe to launch the app and I haven't figured out how to get the file argument passed through explorer.exe to Okular.

I believe that this can be resolved by modifying the manifest, AppxManifest.xml, in the installation directory to define an executable alias for Okular. Based on what's in Spotify's manifest, something like the following would need to added:

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<uap3:Extension Category="windows.appExecutionAlias" Executable=".\bin\okular.exe" EntryPoint="Windows.FullTrustApplication">
   <uap3:AppExecutionAlias>
      <desktop:ExecutionAlias Alias="Okular.exe" />
   </uap3:AppExecutionAlias>
</uap3:Extension>


I don't know if there is anything additional that might also be required. I tried to change the manifest on my own system, but I haven't figured out how to set the proper permissions to let me modify or copy a file into the installation directory. I was able to delete the existing manifest without a problem, though.

Gary