create-link-desktop@DopeyDave: Add action

[DopeyDave]

New Action: Creates a link (shortcut) on the Desktop for a file/folder

Additional information can be found in the README. Please contact me for any questions. Thanks!

[rcalixte]

I believe this already exists:

• https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-actions/tree/master/create-desktop-shortcut@anaximeno
• https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/actions/view/11

[DopeyDave]

I believe this already exists:

This one does not handle hidden files and maybe had a few other things that did not work for me. So I created my own.

[Skullckoor]

I can offer my own option. More = better. Right?

#!/bin/env sh
if command -v xdg-user-dir > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
    [ -d "$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)" ]; then
        DESKTOP="$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)"
elif [ -d "${HOME}/Desktop" ]; then
        DESKTOP="${HOME}/Desktop"
else
    exit 1
fi

for var in "${@}"
do
    FULLPATH="$(echo "${var}" | tr -d '\\' )"
    OBJECT=${FULLPATH##*/}
    if [ -e "${DESKTOP}"/"${OBJECT}" ] || [ -h "${DESKTOP}"/"${OBJECT}" ]
    then

############################################################################

title="The object already exists"
text="already on your desktop. Move to trash?"

TRANS="${LANG%.*}"  #   asd_ZXC // for drop ".UTF-8"

if [ -f "$(dirname "$(readlink -f -- "${0}")")"/po/"${TRANS}".po ]; then
    PO="$(dirname "$(readlink -f -- "${0}")")"/po/"${TRANS}".po
elif
    TR="${TRANS%_*}"    #   asd     // drop "_ZXC"
    [ -f "$(dirname "$(readlink -f -- "${0}")")"/po/"${TR}".po ]; then
    PO="$(dirname "$(readlink -f -- "${0}")")"/po/"${TR}".po
fi

if [ ${PO} ]; then
    title=$(grep -A 1 "${title}" ${PO}|sed '1d;s/msgstr //;s/"//g')
    text=$(grep -A 1 "${text}" ${PO}|sed '1d;s/msgstr //;s/"//g')
fi

############################################################################

        if (zenity --question --icon-name=info \
        --title "${title}" --text="${OBJECT}\n${text}"); then
            gio trash "${DESKTOP}"/"${OBJECT}"
        else
            exit 0
        fi
    fi
    ln -s "${FULLPATH}" "${DESKTOP}"/
done

# Bashism
# "$(sed 's/\\//g' <<< "${var}")"
# "$(tr -d '\\' <<< "${var}")"
# POSIX
# "$(echo "${var}" | sed 's/\\//g')"
# "$(echo "${var}" | tr -d '\\' )"