xdg_user_dirs patches

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Steven Edwards wrote:
[...]
> What this means is that on logon or logoff the WM would call our
> function and generate these fake Shortcuts for the *.lnk files by
> running a copy of winepath after calling the Wine shelllink processor.
> The results of winepath would translate 'c:\Program Files\Foo\Bar.exe'
> in to '~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Foo/Bar.exe
> and pass that to the array in memory containing the "fake" shortcuts.

How does Gnome/KDE know which WINEPREFIX to use for foo.lnk? Why should 
it be '~/.wine' rather than '~/.wine-steam', '~/.wine-office' or 
something else?


> > What Wine could do is try to sync the Unix and Windows desktops with FAM
> > magic, all while not replicating the .lnk files to the Unix desktop.
> 
> Yes I am talking about using something like FAM but having it look for 
> *.lnk changes on the users Linux desktop. Evertime a FAM event occors 
> such as an install of a Windows application with a desktop shelllink, 
> the array containing the "fake" shortcuts in the WM is updated. When 
> the user logs off, this data is lost. The WM gets to keep the Windows 
> and Linux Desktop's in sync without having to actually mess with 
> generating new shortcuts and or confusing the user by having multiple 
> directories.

Well, that sounds like just having Gnome/KDE (!=WM) know how to 
interpret .lnk files. No specific FAM here beyond what they already do.


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