[Bug 848437] [NEW] Installing Wine offers to add useless launcher to panel

[Scott Ritchie]

Public bug reported:

Installing Wine in Oneiric presents a checkbox to add Wine's .desktop
launcher to the panel.

However, this .desktop file is actually useless as a launcher - it's
added solely to open other types of files, since Wine is not an
application that you open by itself.  Software center needs a mechanism
for having this option be overridden.

** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: wine1.2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: wine1.3 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: wine1.3 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: wine1.2 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Installing Wine offers to add useless launcher to panel

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “wine1.2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “wine1.3” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Installing Wine in Oneiric presents a checkbox to add Wine's .desktop
  launcher to the panel.

  However, this .desktop file is actually useless as a launcher - it's
  added solely to open other types of files, since Wine is not an
  application that you open by itself.  Software center needs a
  mechanism for having this option be overridden.

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