Adding programs to Wine menu

[ffutures]

This is a silly one...

Neither of the oscilloscope programs offered in the Ubuntu Linux software centre want to work on the little netbook, so I've installed Wine and a teeny program called Winscope, which is a basic Windows 3.1 freeware oscilloscope. I will probably use Wine with other programs so I haven't just added a few hundred megabytes of files to run a single 800k application.

The trouble is that it's a tiny single-file Windows program and the Windows install method is simply to copy it onto the hard disk and put a link on the menu.

I've managed the putting on the hard disk part. I've managed running it under Wine and configuring Wine to emulate Windows 3.1 when running it. What I can't manage is getting it onto the applications menu. It just isn't there, even after a reboot, though Wine obviously knows it exists.

Anyone got a suggestion on how to do this?

Comments

[draconin.livejournal.com]

It's been a LONG time since I've worked with Win 3.1 but if it's the same as XP then you'll need to create the shortcut yourself. Since I can remember the method for XP and Vista/7, I'll go through that and hope it's similar enough to 3.1.
The method varies slightly between Win XP and Win Vista/7. In Win 7 you click on the Start menu then *right*click on the All Programs item. Choose "Open All Users" and you'll see a folder containing folders and shortcuts. Each folder contains more shortcuts and is an item/folder on the Start menu. Each shortcut at that level (ie not inside folders) is an item that appears at the top of the list when you click on All Programs.
Now all you have to do is create a folder for your program and in it put a shortcut to the program. You should find that it will then appear on your applications menu.
The only difference with XP is in how you get that initial "Open All users". I seem to recall that you do it by right-clicking on the Start icon and choosing just "Open" but I'm not sure and I don't have an XP machine to experiment with. I *think* that Win 3.1 was similar to XP.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry - you're missing the point, I know how to do this in Windows. This is the Wine Windows emulator on a Linux netbook, and it doesn't seem to be possible to do it that way. I suspect that I am missing something about the way Wine works.