I am intending doing some work and submitting some patches to "improve" the integration with the operating system desktop integration. Rather than waste time coding up my ideas and having Alexandre reject them I thought I'd start by specifying what I intend and awaiting a barrage of complaints. So please do comment.
1. I reckon it would be a good idea if somewhere we actually wrote some prose that actually declared what it was we were trying to achieve. I have a real issue with trying to decide if the code does what it does because of a deliberate decision, because either Windows or Linux or ... changed or because we just had not got around to implementing what we want. Prose is much better for that. I could put it in the Wine Developer's Guide, in the Wiki (where?), or as a text file in the winemenubuilder directory (my preference). Any comments?
2. My main issue is that we do not replicate the menu structure under the start menu (and presumably the desktop too but I haven't looked there). The program I am working with goes several layers below the Programs directory. I see that wineshelllink is able to take a path for the link but winemenubuilder doesn't use that. I intend adding to winemenubuilder so that it passes a more complete link, with path, to get the depth.
3. I want to do something about looking for icons when the target is actually data, not an executable. Either I will just use no icon or I will see what I can do about looking up the handler for the file type and going from there (possibly even using the native OS's handler e.g. pdf files).
Any complaints?