Hi,
Is there a reason that:
a) The Wine open/save dialog boxes don't show or follow symlinks and b) They show dotfiles?
I seem to recall a discussion on wine-devel way back on the topic of dotfiles, but a quick archive search didn't turn up much of use. At the very least I think it should be a pref, wading through lots of dotfiles in your home dir makes it much harder to open files with wine, and obviously non-technical users will wonder what is going on with all these stranges folders that I never made......