How to remove uninstalled wine app icons from unity dash?

Question

I installed LAN Messenger (for Windows) using wine but turns out LAN Messenger is also available for linux as well. So..

• I uninstalled LAN Messenger from wine.
• I also removed wine.
• deleted the .wine directory.
• after that sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo apt-get autoclean.
• then I installed LAN Messenger using dpkg -i pkgname.deb and it installed successfully.

The problem is that now I get this in dash:

Any Help is highly appreciated.

[NOTE] I am using ubuntu 12.10

Answer 1

I fixed it:

• open terminal and cd ~/.local/share/applications.
• ls -a and there were few wine-*** files and a folder wine.
• now you can do a selective remove or; in my case; delete all those files using rm -rf wine*

Problem solved!

curtsy: https://askubuntu.com/a/71245/241969

Answer 2

I had a bunch of old applications/games that I could not remove. In my case ~/.local/share/applications also contained folders and subfolders!

~/.local/share/applications$ tree
.
├── gog_com-Streets_of_Rage_4_1.desktop
├── mimeapps.list
├── mimeinfo.cache
├── vlc_1_5.desktop
├── vlc_2_0.desktop
├── wine
│   └── Programs
│       ├── Diablo [GOG.com]
│       │   ├── Diablo.desktop
│       │   ├── Documents
│       │   │   └── Manual.desktop
│       │   └── Uninstall Diablo.desktop
│       ├── Sacred Gold [GOG.com]
│       │   ├── Dedicated Game Server.desktop
│       │   ├── Documents
│       │   │   ├── Map.desktop
│       │   │   ├── Quickstart.desktop
│       │   │   ├── Readme.desktop
│       │   │   └── Руководство.desktop
│       │   ├── Sacred Gold.desktop
│       │   ├── Settings.desktop
│       │   └── Uninstall Sacred Gold.desktop
│       └── SADPTool
│           ├── SADPTool.desktop
│           └── Uninstall SADPTool.desktop
├── wine-extension-chm.desktop
├── wine-extension-hlp.desktop
├── wine-extension-msp.desktop
└── wine-extension-vbs.desktop

So I had to remove *.desktop files in subfolders also.