I actually did some testing behind .lnk functionality (unscientific testing, that is) with wine a few months ago. Xorg actually fully supports Windows' .lnk files with 2 minor annoyances..
The .lnk files could theoretically be used as the links in the menus if these 2 annoyances could be fixed (probably by Xorg, not wine).. 1) The .lnk extension shows up even in the menu 2) The icon is just a picture of a window with a white background and a MS flag. If that icon could be changed to, say the icon specified inside the .lnk file, it would be perfect. Other than that, you can double click on a .lnk file and the program will be executed with wine (assuming BINFMT_MISC is setup properly on your system), including whatever command line options are specified to the program, in the lnk file. Now with all that being said, this still deviates from Freedesktop, so I kinda need to backtrack and say that I am not recommending that we USE those files as the menu entries. Quite the contrary! I think if we can find out what license the xorg code to parse the .lnk files is under, then we could potentially use that code to help us with a parser, or if it is not LGPL'ed then we might be able to get the code author's permission.. One other amendment to what I said above, because I haven't fully checked this.. It may just be KDE that supports the lnk files, and not Xorg.. As KDE is what I use, I don't have time to install/test with GNOME, or others. Someone please feel free to give it a shot with something other than KDE and post results back.. Hope that helps Tom P.S. While we are at it, can someone look into bug 3548 please? On 6/22/07, Damjan Jovanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi At the moment, wine builds fd.o menus by calling winemenubuilder and wineshelllink when shell32's IPersistFile_fnSave is invoked. This both misses menus copied directly into the menu directory without calling IPersistFile_fnSave, and provides no way to remove the menus when the app is uninstalled. Wine also keeps .lnk files in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/<user>/Start Menu/ just like Windows does, and those .lnk files seem like a much better representation of the menus that should appear on the system, because they are also deleted when an app is uninstalled. Is it possible to add a new utility, or patch an existing utility like wineboot, to synchronize between wine's .lnk files in the windows directory and the fd.o menus, instead of using winemenubuilder/wineshelllink? Would a patch that does that be okay? Thank you Damjan
-- Thanks Tom
