Here's the current status update wrt to my comment #3:

 - The "architectural bug" has been fixed in the Oneiric cycle as part
of a bigger revamp of he places/lenses infrastructure. This makes it at
least technically feasible to resolve this bug.

 - libgnome-menu is probably even more in limbo than I described before.

 - Afaik there has been no constructive discussion about how to resolve
this issue. And as I hinted before the statement "zomg! unity is teh
broken because it doesn't support nested folders!☠" is based on
frustration (which I can appreciate), but also based on a wrong
assumption. Wine assumes that it will always live in a deeply nested
hierarchy that it has full control over and Unity's design policy is
pretty much the converse. Flat and locked down. The Wine approach
wouldn't fly on Android or iOS either.

What I think needs to happen to move this bug forward is to have some
constructive conversation around how to resolve this. Deep folder
browsing is the obvious solution, but probably also the absolutely last
resort as it breaks the UX horribly. So let's see if there is a more
elegant way out of this.

My own best idea right now would be to not include Wine aps in the apps
lens, but write a dedicated lens for Wine apps. Each app could then live
in its' own cateogry, bundling all related launchers in that category.
Living in a dedicated lens gives much more wiggle room for custom layout
and interactions. It still doesn't entirely solve the problem in the
global dash search though, where you'd end up with hits in the odd
launchers...

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