laeg wrote: > I've reinstalled WINE and the menu now appears to function properly although when I install anything I get the annoying .lnk and .desktop files on my desktop. > > Is this a WINE issue or something I should take up with Gnome or Ubuntu? Neither. This is normal. It happens to me too--and I run Mac OS X! So I can't even use the .desktop file. To be honest, we don't know how to fix it (cleanly) or if we even want to. I'm willing to bet that a number of apps' uninstallers expect the .lnk to be there.