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

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

--- Comment #43 from Thomas Spear  2012-04-24 04:55:25 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #42)
> I like the virtualized filesystem idea, but its probably not practical for wine
> itself to implement, moreso something for a separate project (winetricks?)

Thinking further about the virtualized filesystem idea, it should, in theory,
be possible to virtualize the filesystem without needing a fuse driver, if the
user were to setup a single file that were to hold the filesystem, sort of like
a VHD or an ISO. I like the ISO idea better, but perhaps something that's not
associated with a read-only media would be more appropriate.

That way it could be mounted with the loopback driver already in the kernel and
reads/writes would just take place to the mount point. It would make managing
things easier because the user could create an fstab-like file for wine to read
(or just do it in winecfg) to specify the mount point and path to the file
containing wine's filesystem -- That's the one thing I've always disliked about
wine was having the filesystem default to being under my home directory.