Wine Start menu

[Robert van Herk]

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