On Friday 30 November 2007 03:35:14 am Francois Gouget wrote:
I'm not sure we want to handle the desktop directory the same way. It's really a special case because applications often put their 'icons' on the desktop. So if the Windows desktop is just a symbolic link to the Unix one, the user will end up with a lot of 'xxx.lnk' files on his desktop. In particular these files will show the wrong icon: they will have the icon associated with 'lnk' files, instead of the one of the application they are supposed to start.
Just to note, Wine already does this. The desktop directory is linked to ~/Desktop by default, which is the X desktop directory for most systems. You also should take into account that apps will sometimes place non-lnk files onto the desktop that the user may expect to see (extracted files, downloaded files, readme's, etc).