On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@...> wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 05:25 PM, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
>>
>> Ever since the upgrade of Gnome to 2.2.6 I have had a problem with the
>> Wine menus.
>>
>> Actually the Wine menus are gone and the individual icons for the
>> windoze apps, such as Winamp, are now scatter under the menu "Others".
>>
>> One interesting bit, is that if I delete the
>> $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu file, I get the correct Wine
>> menu structure, but the moment I open the Menu Editor (alacarte), it
>> creates a new $HOME/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu and the Wine
>> menu structure disappears and the icons all end up in the "Others"
>> category.
>>
>> Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody help me?
>
> That is quite peculiar since the same happens with KDE4 (where it was
> working OK in KDE3).

I haven't tried it, but this looks like it may contain a solution/workaround:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#KDE_4_Menu_Fix.5B1.5D

(quoting that page from here on)

 KDE 4 Menu Fix[1]

The Wine menu items may appear in "Lost & Found" instead of the Wine
menu for KDE 4. This is because kde-applications.menu is missing the
MergeDir option.

Edit /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu

At the end of the file add <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
after <DefaultMergeDirs/>, it should look like this:

        <Include>
                <And>
                        <Category>KDE</Category>
                        <Category>Core</Category>
                </And>
        </Include>
        <DefaultMergeDirs/>
        <MergeDir>applications-merged</MergeDir>
        <MergeFile>applications-kmenuedit.menu</MergeFile>
</Menu>

Alternatively you can create a symlink to a folder that KDE does see:

ln -s ~/.config/menus/applications-merged
~/.config/menus/kde-applications-merged

This has the added bonus that an update to KDE won't change it, but is
per user instead of system wide.