That's a good question! Since I didn't expect it, I didn't try it for that purpose. I did a fresh install of the OS in the days before downloading your tar.gz package, and only made several soft links to other directories on my desktop eg "ln -s /home/user/Documents/LaTeX LaTeX" for a link to my LaTeX document and others, prior to installing your program. I followed your install instructions and the installation proceeded without problems. Since there are several 'desktops' and 'file managers' perhaps...
SOLVED! Found that the 'default' open command was to use "Disk Usage Analyser". Changed to default to "nemo" by right-click, 'open with' and typing in nemo and select as the 'default' action.
output of fastfetch attached.... Desktop was running Cinnamon
output of fastfetch attached....
Links on Desktop do not work after install on Linux Mint 22.0