[Bug 3548] .lnk file is created on the desktop together with the program icon...

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3548

--- Comment #22 from Erich Hoover   2009-09-13 12:02:57 ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> Yes, but the .lnk files would not work correctly for prefixes other than the
> default. Also, the desktop environment would probably have to create a winelib
> process to thumbnail the .lnk files, which could be expensive.

Good points.  While you could work around these issues pretty readily it's
probably not really worth it.