Being newly converted here from ubuntu i’ve still got get used to yast-things and rpm-stuff but i’ll try my best. I am running 11.2 Gnome, all updates finished. I used the live-CD to install and do not have the DVD iso available. It’s also in dutch locale so i might miss sometimes in the exact english menu names.
I installed wine through yast (i think), anyways with the “add software” thing.
It installed both wine and wine-gecko according to “software management”. It doesnt add itself in the gnome-menu (nor in the suse-edited menu labeled computer) and when looking in my homefolder, the directory /.wine isnt created.
I tried to install it again, this time using a one click install but that didnt change anything…
Just edit the menu by right clicking on the launcher and select “menu editor”. You can place new items in the wine Programs submenu or anywhere else. I know it is annoying, but you only have to do it once for each program, and IIRC the folders are even created there when wine installs something, just not the actual program links.
Once you run wine for the first time it will create and configure the wineprefix (defaults to ~/.wine). It also automatically updates the wineprefix when a new version of wine is run too.
Edit: oops, skipped right over that Gnome part. I run KDE, so I don’t know how applicable my menu editing directions will be. Surely Gnome offers similar functionality though?
If you want to run wine itself just type winefile. Run winecfg to configure various settings, hardware, directories etc. It is probably easy to add winefile as an entry in the menu manually as well, I am on KDE and do not know Gnome. If you want to install any programmes or games just click on the .exe file directly (you probably know this) from your linux environment and choose ‘open with > wine’, after the installation the program/game will probably have its own entry in the Gnome menu. And, thus, you don’t have to open wine to run the selected application.