http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10719
--- Comment #6 from yellow_onion@orcon.net.nz 2007-12-13 23:24:35 --- (In reply to comment #4)
You need to read why this bug has been closed as invalid. Wine performs *exactly* the same way concerning current directories as Windows. This will not be changed, as any such change would be incorrect.
I did read and launching apps from nautilus [just reports missing file errors] dosen't work as explorer and no linux user should not have to work from wine-explorer to get this to work. its terribly annoying and if none of you can see that try it yourself Steam [ and starwars pod racer are good examples]