Wine menu creation questions

[Austin English]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that when wine creates a menu item (that for example,
> on Ubuntu gets put in the Applications > Wine > Programs menu), the
> command that gets written uses 'wine' as the program to run. This
> means that you need to have Wine in your PATH and cannot use more than
> one version of Wine. For example, if I wanted to use /opt/wine-1.0,
> /opt/crossover and /opt/wine for different applications I cannot
> access these correctly from the menu items created. Additionally, the
> user experience (yes, I have been watching Owen's Google talk :)) is
> that the application does not start (especially if the only version of
> Wine is not on the PATH).
>
> The solution to this is to add the full path to wine, e.g.
> '/opt/wine-1.0/bin/wine' when generating the menus. Are there any
> objections to this?
>
> Along similar lines, building on what Owen said in the talk that if
> all goes well Jane user will not notice that she is using Wine to run
> her Windows software: why is there an entry in the Applications
> section that says 'Wine' (and why does it have the folder icon and not
> the Wine icon)! It would be better if this said something like
> "Program Files", replacing Wine > Programs -- this removes a level of
> indirection and gives the user something that they are familiar with
> and is more discoverable than 'Wine'.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Reece
>
>
>

There's actually a bug on this:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17055

but didn't generate much discussion.

Personally, I like it.
--
-Austin