[Wine] Strange Applications' Wine submenu behaviour

[Charles Davis]

laeg wrote:
> I've reinstalled WINE and the menu now appears to function properly although when I install anything I get the annoying .lnk and .desktop files on my desktop.
> 
> Is this a WINE issue or something I should take up with Gnome or Ubuntu?
Neither. This is normal. It happens to me too--and I run Mac OS X! So I
can't even use the .desktop file.

To be honest, we don't know how to fix it (cleanly) or if we even want
to. I'm willing to bet that a number of apps' uninstallers expect the
.lnk to be there.