Comment 2 for bug 1711855

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?