Get Desktop folder

[Joachim Buermann]

Hello,

I'm looking for a plattform independent way, to examinate the path of the 
user's current desktop folder. The background: My application has to create a 
shortcut desktop icon automatically.

On Linux ::wxGetUserHome() extended with "Desktop" should works with Gnome and 
KDE, but within windows I'm very confused by the microsoft documentation 
about:

SHGetFolderPath(...)

The dll for this function isn't the same on different versions like win98, NT 
or XP (shfolder.dll or shell32.dll), and the function has to be loaded 
dynamically by the application.
More complicated: Within Windows, the user also can change the desktop folder 
name and the folder also depend  on the user's language settings.

I didn't found any functionality in the wxWidget API, but maybe I'm 
overlooking something.

Thanks for any help on this,
Joachim