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).
