#100 Automatically Handle desktop.ini

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Folder should automatically generate a "Desktop.ini" file.

See "Creating a desktop.ini file" (msdn.microsoft.com) at MSDN.

Windows makes many requests for these files in folders. They are small and can do a couple clever things like assigning an icon and tooltip to a file - and possibly restrict re-sharing.

Just redirecting requests for "desktop.ini" to a "DesktopINIObject" that implements the magick would be simple enough. If the user creates a real desktop.ini it can simply trump the 404 fall-through. So handling this request should be the last step in the object_for_key method.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Example Desktop.ini file

[.ShellClassInfo]
ConfirmFileOp=0
URL=ccnews.htm
Logo=C:\WINDOWS\web\news_sl.gif
WideLogo=C:\WINDOWS\web\news_wl.gif
IconIndex=0
IconFile=C:\WINDOWS\web\news.ico