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How can I get the application Navicat into my launcher menu & sidebar 'dock'?

It runs in wine and has its own wine directory as part of the download. I've created .desktop files before to create launcher icons but I cannot figure out how to do it with Navicat & the tutorials I've found online for wine applications don't seem to work. I think it's because Navicat has it's own wine directory and doesn't use the one that comes with Ubuntu?

It was suggested that this is a duplicate of "How does one create a custom application launcher for Wine installed apps?" which I've tried and it hasn't worked. I'm not sure what makes my case different though, I think it's related to Navicat using a wine directory that is downloaded with the application.

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I used to start Navicat from Bash till I figured out the solution. To add Navicat to the menu, create a Launcher item in /usr/share/applications. Change the Exec line to match the path where you unzipped navicat. The solution has nothing to do with wine. 

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Navicat
Comment=Database Admin Tool
Exec=/bin/sh  "/opt/navicat/start_navicat"
Icon=/path/to/icon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Wine;
StartupNotify=true
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