http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31194
--- Comment #5 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2012-07-11 14:59:21 CDT --- (In reply to comment #2)
Duplicate of bug 19182.
Adding export WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winemenubuilder.exe=d" to .bashrc will disable winemenubuilder for all wineprefixes, without needing to bother with winecfg. The only problem is that winetricks does not respect .bashrc settings, but that's a winetricks bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19182 ***
It certainly should. I suppose there could be some weirdness if your main shell isn't bash (it invokes /bin/sh), but testing locally it works when used in an interactive shell (not sure about non-interactive shells though, e.g., from your DE's menu).