Having to resort to the Terminal to open the application, is not sufficient. It needs to be available when I search in my app launcher list, or open the GUI app list.

It is trivial to convert any command into a shortcut: https://linux.codidact.com/posts/291640

matthewsnyder‭ I strongly disagree that it's a "separate" question. I do however think it's very useful to have that other question for when the user just wants to do that. But no, it's conceptually the same task when installing an application.

That other question is only of use to more advanced users. To quote myself from chat yesterday:

That's the thing I've been reading about as a programmer, when I looked at GLFW a year ago. It's honestly nothing that regular users should have to deal with. It's wonderful that advanced users can do this manually in rare cases where advanced/niche software is used, but I'd call it a fundamental design error when any regular user has to deal with it.

Remember, this Q-A is not just for you, but also other people who have the same issue. There are three sets of people:

• U who want to install/run windows apps on Linux (this is what the question title advertises)
• V who want to convert terminal commands they use to shortcuts
• W who want to streamline their use of Wine

You are at the intersection of all three. But there are actually many people in only 1 or 2 of these sets but not the others. There are also many more people that know how to solve one of these, but not all of them at once. And it is easier to write a good answer to one question rather than three. For this reason, it is more efficient to answer U and V's question separately, then let W read both and connect them on their own.

But it's your question, feel free to ask and accept whatever you want.