Hi all,
As some of you might know I am working on a Wine Start menu, for Linux.
I have heard different things on this list about the way Windows treats the start menu.
Some told me that it would be better to make a Windows (wine) client that reads the actual start menu by querying a Wine dll, while others told me that this is not neccesairy as all the links are contained in the Start Menu directory.
From looking at my Windows installation, I must agree that it seems that all items in Programs are indeed in the Start Menu directory.
So, my question is: would it be enough to create just a Linux program that synchronizes with this directory? Can anyone give me an example of a lnk file that IS actually missing in a Start Menu directory, but is there in his Program folder in the Windows start menu?
Does anyone know how far people came at parsing the lnk files for Linux? I read something about the .lnk format, but I don't really feel like writing my own link file parser ;-). Does anybody know of parts of other software that could be recycled here?
Grtz,
Robert