On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:14 PM, roderick <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think the original issue is that the user is confusing the regular .desktop file with a windows shortcut - these are two completely different things. > > Wine with use native linux tools to generate a desktop file, which looks similar to the windows sortcut, but it is most certainly not the windows shortcut. > > This should not be a concern, as the generated desktop file is just a regular .desktop used by your linux system and has an exec line with wine and the windows program - that's all. It's not windows accessing your desktop :) > > Cheers. > > > > > > True, but wine apps can still access outside files, within the permissions of the user account it is run as.
