I’ve noticed that sometimes when transferring media from Windows to Linux, desktop.ini created by Windows are included. These files include useful metadata, such as the icon for the folder and more.
Typically, Linux systems use the XDG desktop file standard (.desktop). These files seem capable of roughly everything that desktop.ini files are capable of.
My first instinct was to create a simple script to convert these files. This is possible (I’ve converted many of these files by hand), but is not ideal, as either file might go out of sync.
I’ve seen that Steam seems to interact with these in some interesting ways, but often doesn’t properly read program arguments from .desktop files. It’s also a huge hassle to work with in general.
Is there a setting in KDE or Gnome to enable (partial) support for desktop.ini files? I couldn’t find any settings for this on my system – but I know there’s tons of settings that haven’t yet been exposed graphically. Is there an extension, or would such an extension even be possible?
If extensive support for desktop.ini requires Wine -that’s fine by me. I don’t think folder icons would require that, however.
