How to obtain the path of Desktop in gnome

I am using gnome/Ubuntu-10.10 in Chinese language and the desktop path is not "~/Des开发者_StackOverflowktop" but "~/XXXX" where XXXX stands for the Chinese translation of "Desktop". So, how to write code to obtain the proper path of desktop regardless of the system language? I noticed Qt SDK properly added a shortcut on the desktop so I guess there is a way. Thanks a lot!

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One more way to do it:

dir=$(xdg-user-dir DESKTOP)

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The locations of the user directories are described in the xdg-user-dirs specification. They provide some code here that you can copy, to look up the name of the desktop directory from within your code.

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If you are using Glib, you can do

const char *desktop_dir = g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_DESKTOP);

This properly pays attention to the XDG environment variables and all that.

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echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}

works fine on a local linux drive and also when the /home/<user> is mapped to an nfs drive.

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I have not tested yet, but try echo echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}, this cmd maybe do the work.

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The answer is provided by xdg-user-dirs specs:

test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}
echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME}