wine-stable is missing the standard Wine menu entries / .desktop files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wine (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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
ProcVersionSign
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)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
tags: | added: bionic regression-update |
tags: | removed: regression-update |
Changed in wine (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
Changed in wine (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
When I was looking around some Wine repositories on another computer, I noticed that the Zorin OS guys have a Testing PPA for Wine builds with wine-stable 2.0.2 and the missing .desktop files included in the package (thereby fixing this usability bug). You can find the PPA here: https:/ /launchpad. net/~zorinos/ +archive/ ubuntu/ wine-testing
After trying out their wine-stable 2.0.2 package in Ubuntu 17.10, I can safely say that the menu entries they added work just as they did in the stock wine1.6 package in Ubuntu 16.04. It might be worth taking a look into what the Zorin OS guys did and incorporating it into the wine-stable package in the official Ubuntu repositories.
P.S. I've also installed the xenial package for wine-stable 2.0.2 from this Zorin OS PPA and it works very well under Ubuntu 16.04. Perhaps it might be worth backporting Wine 2.0.2 to 16.04 users?