Canonical location in PREFIX for menu item artifacts

[jaimergp]

The CEP preview of menuinst creates shortcuts for Linux, macOS and Windows in three default locations:

• Linux: ~/.local/share/applications
• macOS: ~/Applications
• Windows: whatever the default locations for Start Menu, Quick Launch and Desktop are.

For this we create full files with computable paths, so we can re-obtain these paths at uninstall time if needed. The problem is that these files might not be there by the time we want to uninstall them (Windows users might rename or move the shortcuts, and they'd still work; macOS users might put the .app directory somewhere else; I am not expecting Linux users to mess with their .desktop files but you never know).

Instead of doing this, @goanpeca and I were talking about creating the actual menu files in PREFIX itself (under var/menuinst or similar), and the symlink to this canonical location from the system parts. This needs to be tested (specially on Windows, with different letter units?), but it should work. It would also have the benefit of having an easy-to-find location for the generated shortcuts without having to re-run menuinst to find out.

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[jaimergp]

not stale