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How can I get Gnome Do to launch Wine Apps?

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I was just wondering how I could get Gnome Do to "see" windows applications (that I install/run with WINE), so I can run them from Gnome Do as if they were the same as any of my installed programs. Is this possible?

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Best Anders Aagaard (aagaande) said : 		#1

You could solve this by adding a script to start the specific program, either by adding it to /usr/local/bin, or if you dont have system access to $HOME/.bin and adding that to the path. Adding $HOME/.bin to path would usually involve opening $HOME/.bashrc and adding : export PATH="$HOME/.bin:$PATH"

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GJ (bobblehat) said : 		#2

Thanks, although I did it by using the Files and Folders plugin, and telling it to search my desktop (which I had added some launchers to).

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J.M. Hardin (jmhardin) said : 		#3

Thanks. I looked for I don't know how long to find an answer to this. I should have thought to look here first, it would have saved me a ton of time and aggravation.

The only change I had to make was to use $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/applications to get my locally installed apps available in my Hardy 8.4.01.

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J.M. Hardin (jmhardin) said : 		#4

Sorry, that path should have read $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs, and I added it to the Files and Folders plugin.

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rakslice (rakslice) said : 		#5

Enable the Files and Folders plugin, go to its configuration, and add the folder that wine's *.desktop shortcuts are in to the Indexed Folders list. If the path has some hidden folders in it that you can't browse through in the "Choose folder to index" dialog, you can still click the file-with-a-pencil button to get a box where you can type or paste in the full path you want.

For recent versions of wine use:
~/.local/share/applications/wine
For recent versions of Crossover use:
~/.cxoffice/winxp/desktopdata/cxmenu/xdg-applications

 ***DON'T FORGET***: Once the directory appears in the indexed folders list, click in the Depth column next to it and set it to the number of folders deep in which all the *.desktop shortcuts you want can be found.