This service menu is designed as a tool to effortlessly create one or more shortcuts from the file manager, using a symbolic link generated with a quick right mouse click. My user case is that I tend to send multiple work-in-progress files to my desktop simultaneously, and this satisfies my needs.
The ServiceMenu will be created in ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/
If that path doesn’t exist for your user, create it with:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus
Create createdesktopshortcut.desktop with kate:
kate ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/createdesktopshortcut.desktop
Add the lines:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=all/all;
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel
Actions=sendDesktop;
[Desktop Action sendDesktop]
Name=Create desktop shortcut
Name[de]=Desktopverknüpfung erstellen
Name[fr]=Créer un raccourci sur le bureau
Name[es]=Crear acceso directo del escritorio
Name[hr_HR]=Asztali parancsikon létrehozása
Name[nl]=Snelkoppeling op het bureaublad maken
Name[da]=Opret skrivebordsgenvej
Name[pt]=Criar atalho na área de trabalho
Name[nb]=Lag skrivebords snarvei
Name[pt_BR]=Criar atalho na área de trabalho
Name[ru_RU]=Создать ярлык на рабочем столе
Name[sr]=Napravi prečicu na desktopu
Exec=/bin/ln -s %F ~/Desktop
Icon=desktop
Please notice that you may need to run chmod to make sure it will work with your user
chmod +x createdesktopshortcut.desktop
That’s all.
