Re:...and it's helped WINE (Score 1)

> Or even cooler, the installation program could scan your Windows partition, see what apps you have
> on your Start Menu, and set them up to run from Wine.

The GNOME panel has options to automagically include KDE and AnotherLevel menus. How much effort would it be to add Windows Start menus?
The only real problem is that the Windows shortcuts are in some unintelligle binary format, and rest-assured Microsoft won't just give the specs away...