SDesk monitors directories to provide desktop elements on the fly.

$SDESKDIR/tray

    provides tray applets from applet subdirectories

$SDESKDIR/icons

    provides desktop icons from .desktop files or symlinks

$SDESKDIR/ui

    provides gui for apps from gtkbuilder ui files

$SDESKDIR/sh

    provides helper functions to UI/tray apps from sourced shell scripts

$SDESKDIR/desk

    provides desktop backgrounds capable of displaying non-interactive widgets

$SDESKDIR/plugins

    provides plugins to help UI/tray apps These can be extended to provide extra capabilities such as interaction via RPC, sockets, DBUS... or additional UI widgets such as those in webkitgtk, or an interface to C libraries or other languages