Granted. But Wine doesn't use the standard .desktop files.

Crossover creates .desktop files but I don't remember their location and
it's not standard. It also creates symlinks in the ~/bin directory which is
what I tend to use.
On 28 Aug 2013 17:54, "Benjamin Tayehanpour" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 28 August 2013 11:17, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[email protected]> wrote:
> > cd ~/Desktop
> > ln -s "<PATH TO PROGRAM>" "<NAME OF SHORTCUT>"
> >
> > To do it for all (new) users.
> > cd /etc/skel/Desktop
> > ln -s "<PATH TO PROGRAM>" "<NAME OF SHORTCUT>"
> >
> > To do it for all existing users.
> > cd /home
> >   for i in *; do
> >   ln -s "<PATH TO PROGRAM>" "$i/Desktop/<NAME OF SHORTCUT>"
> > done
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > Peter
>
> That's a terrible way to do it, if we're talking about desktop
> shortcuts. You should use the freedesktop specification for .desktop
> shortcut files instead. The stock ones in /usr/share/applications
> ought to get you started.
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