Seeing as more than just Wine apps can not include the category line I
feel it best that Unity should place all these items into the Other
Section, at least they are then accessible to the user to run from
Unity.

As for Uninstall and other duplicate names, these should ALL get hidden
from the menu system, they are usually junk. To remove your programs you
simply run an uninstall tool to do so, or browse to the install location
and run Uninstall.exe manually from there.

By complicating the method that the links are available/search-able to
Unity will not only slow down the desktop, but will also be more prone
to errors. I hope that in Future Unity will provide a way to build up
your own Menu categories and apply items to them, AND make it
transferable to other PC's easily, this will enable the end user to
customize the menu structure for their network/friends/respins.

The other method we could use is a post install linux app that you can
run that will recreate the .desktop and .menu files to be identifiable
from unity, by offering a update-able database of common Windows
applications this will allow for category sorting to also take effect.

The simplest solution is the best one, in these cases - and all that
requires is that apps without a category go to the Other menu category
to allow Unity search to find them (or add them to the Applications drop
down list). As for the icons, the .desktop file is already linked to the
.menu file, we could easily set the icon file in the .desktop to point
to the same file (so long as the exe icon extraction is still
functioning).


The last solution I can think of is a method to call a custom Menu system to 
the panel list, one that uses the gnome methods to list any and all items it 
finds, instead of the bias way unity does it :D

Just some ideas, hope to see this problem resolved soon.

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