[Bug 3548] .lnk file is created on the desktop together with the program icon...

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3548

--- Comment #41 from Damjan Jovanovic  2012-04-24 04:36:08 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #40)
> Still present in Notepad++ 6.1.1 using Fedora 16 x86_64 with wine 1.5.1.
> I'm not sure if any ideas on this have changed from Gnome3/Unity/OtherDE? with
> new method of not showing the files. Is this a large issue any more (for
> certain D.E.)? Has this move changed ideology for .lnk files being a viewable
> issue?

1. When the .lnk file is on the invisible desktop, we add a .desktop file on
the visible desktop.
2. When the .lnk file is on the visible desktop, we add a custom thumbnail to
that .lnk file.

Point 1 already works. Point 2 is difficult, since each desktop environment has
its own way of adding custom thumbnails to files.

I wonder if the Portland project could add a desktop-independent tool for
adding custom thumbnails to arbitrary files?

Oh and Gnome 3 / KDE 4 have dropped support for so many XDG standards that I
have even less hope for this working properly everywhere nowdays.