WinRAR installer icon creation, and the Start Menu folder

[Tom Spear]

Yet another topic about the start menu, I know.  This one is just a
curiosity really.

Why, if we create folders like Desktop and My Documents, under the
fake windows directory, do we not create a Start Menu folder?

I ask because WinRAR's installer looks for the Start Menu folder in
various locations, but does not create it.  If it doesn't find it,
then it falls back to placing the WinRAR folder that should go under
Start Menu\Programs into the Program Files\WinRAR folder, same for the
WinRAR icon that should go under the main Start Menu folder.  This
causes the icons to not get created under the xorg menu, even during
wineboot.

[Jan Zerebecki]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Tom Spear wrote:
> Why, if we create folders like Desktop and My Documents, under the
> fake windows directory, do we not create a Start Menu folder?

We do create it during wineprefixcreate.

.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/username/Start Menu

Jan

[Tom Spear]

On 3/22/07, Jan Zerebecki  wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Tom Spear wrote:
> > Why, if we create folders like Desktop and My Documents, under the
> > fake windows directory, do we not create a Start Menu folder?
>
> We do create it during wineprefixcreate.
>
> .wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/username/Start Menu
>
> Jan

hmm.  I looked in the shell32 source (0.9.33), and I don't see it in
the function that creates the Desktop and My Documents and co folders,
and its not getting created when I run wineprefixcreate.  Should I
open a bug?

[Tom Spear]

On 3/23/07, Tom Spear  wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Jan Zerebecki  wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Tom Spear wrote:
> > > Why, if we create folders like Desktop and My Documents, under the
> > > fake windows directory, do we not create a Start Menu folder?
> >
> > We do create it during wineprefixcreate.
> >
> > .wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/username/Start Menu
> >
> > Jan

Ok I dont know WTF is going on or why it didnt work before but when I
cleaned everything again, this time it was created properly.

[Jan Zerebecki]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:29:03AM -0500, Tom Spear wrote:
> hmm.  I looked in the shell32 source (0.9.33), and I don't see it in
> the function that creates the Desktop and My Documents and co folders,
> and its not getting created when I run wineprefixcreate.  Should I
> open a bug?

At some point SHGetFolderPathW should get called with it and that should create it...

Jan