mc/lib/README.desktop

* The Desktop startup directory

The directory $(libdir)/mc/desktop-scripts is a place holder for
information on how to configure the default's user desktop.  There are
a number of files that can be installed in this directory:

	* Link definition files: These files are used to create
	  links to web and ftp sites on the user's desktop.

	* Executables: Programs or links to programs that will be
	  executed when the user requests a directory rescan.

* Link definition file format

The file should contain an ini-like file whose contents are as follows:

[linkname]
title=Title in english
title[pt_BR]=T<EFBFBD>tulo em ingl<67>s
title[NN]=Title in language NN
type=url
url=some-url

The linkname is the name of the file that will be created in the
user's desktop directory.  

title is the caption that will be used by this file.  This can be
localized by providing one or more title[NN] entries, where NN is
the setting that would be set by the user for the NN locale.


* Executables

Executable programs will be executed like this:

	program --desktop-dir=DESKTOPDIR

Where DESKTOPDIR is the user's desktop directory.

The program can then populate the directory with any information it
might want.  This is used for example by the g-print program (that
provides priting facilities by creating special desktop entries that
set up the drop action and varios different open actions)