Consider using pyshortcuts to make shortcuts.

[Poikilos]

• See https://github.com/newville/pyshortcuts
  • fork, PR, or don't use since need feature: make the desktop file such that it displays a dialog if the program exits with error (such as if running Cura "linux-modern" AppImage: [21413] Error loading Python lib '/tmp/.mount_UltimaTiQDNM/libpython3.10.so.1.0': dlopen: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_UltimaTiQDNM/libpython3.10.so.1.0)`)

Read existing links (even malformed ones) with LnkParse3 (forensic Lnk file parser).