http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7802
Summary: menubuilder is broken Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-programs AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: Speeddymon@gmail.com
Currently wine and the menubuilder/shelllink is broken in a couple of ways..
1) winecfg defaults to directing the windows desktop to the user's xorg ~/Desktop. This is bad because then wine puts a .lnk file and a .desktop file on the user's ~/Desktop when it installs a program.. wine should put all .lnk files in an out of the way location like ~/.wine/menubuilder/<Menu/Desktop> and then make the .desktop files from there and put them to the real desktop..
2) There is no Start Menu folder created under wine's windows profile, which causes at least WinRAR to put menu icons under the program's install directory. Wine needs to at least make a Start Menu symlink in drive_c/windows/profiles/(user)/ that points to the xorg menu location so that programs can at least find the start menu, and then as above, should redirect lnk files to the correct location..
I will attach traces here.