Public bug reported:
In every version of Ubuntu after 16.04, the wine package (now listed as
"wine-stable" in the repositories) no longer appears to include the .desktop
files (menu entries) for important Wine components such as:
Configure Wine
Uninstall Wine Software
Browse C: Drive
..and most importantly
the "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader" link (which normally appears in
the right-click > "Open with..." menu in the file browser for .exe files)
This makes it nearly impossible for new users to figure out how to
install Windows apps and use Wine, as it appears that all Wine functions
are hidden behind Terminal commands.
Perhaps re-including these missing .desktop files into the wine-stable
package could fix this usability regression?
P.S. I'm currently trying this on a daily build of Ubuntu 17.10 with the
wine-stable package number 2.0.2-1ubuntu1
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: wine-stable 2.0.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-13.19-generic 4.11.12
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.384
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 19 18:20:31 2017
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170814)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: wine (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful
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wine-stable is missing the standard Wine menu entries / .desktop files
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