Some months ago I incorrectly tried to upgrade/uninstall/reinstall WINE and ever
since my Applications' Wine and Other submenus has just not been right.
Instead of the Wine submenu having neat little submenus for every Windows
program I had installed, just like Program Files/All Programs, it now instead
has 3 entries and everything has been put messily into the Other submenu, see
below:
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My last attempt at fixing it was yesterday. I removed WINE using synaptic and
then through nautilus moved the .wine dir in ~ to trash and deleted it. Then
leaving my /home partition intact I formatted my / partition before freshly
installing Ubuntu 9.10 from disc.
On boot I reinstalled WINE only to find I still had the same problem and
curiously enough even the messy Other menu whose symlinks lead to files which no
longer exist. To test the Wine menu I quickly installed a small Windows program
and it failed to give me a sub menu for it in Applications >> Wine
>> as it should and did before.
Perhaps I need to first remove a file which governs the Applications menu from
my /~ dir before reinstalling the system again?
Also, I don't remember having these windowsprogram.desktop and
windowsprogram.ink files cluttering up my desktop before I initially had the
problem so it may be related?