Comment 33 for bug 1353024

(In reply to comment #28)
> Perhaps we could move the .lnk's from the 'user' desktop to the 'public'
> desktop, which would keep it off the 'real' desktop, but also allow keeping
> track of it to remove the .desktop for later removal?

The application tells shell32 to write the .lnk file to a specific C:\path\to\file.lnk location and remembers that location. Any attempt to move or rename the .lnk after that - even to the other desktop - loses that file and stops the application from deleting it on uninstall.

The only thing I can think of that would fix this is to virtualize the filesystem - eg. use a FUSE module that merges ~/.wine/drive_c/users/user/Desktop with ~/Desktop when reading, but write .lnk files to ~/.wine/drive_c/users/user/Desktop and everything else to ~/Desktop.