Thread: [How to]Desktop shortcuts to folders and files(sort of)
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2010-05-31 , 16:12
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Originally Posted by MOC View Post
Then navigate to a folder and simply create a bookmark, which you can later add to the desktop in a normal fashion.

To make a shortcut for a file, create a bookmark for the folder, then manual edit the url to point at the file.

It works for me, and I now have one-click access to ex. a pdf-file from the desktop.
Do I understand right, you create a desktop file which is a bookmark for the browser and open that one up to then be redirected to the application which opens the file you wanted to call?
Imagine you have no browserd running to save some mem. Then you tap on that bookmark, wait until browserd comes up just for having it throwing the path to the mime type handler and opening an external prog for it.
Sounds complicated. Can't believe there is no easier way to do that.