quickemu --shortcut fails in less than clear way when ~/.local/applications doesn't exist

[dwvisser]

Expected behaviour

If I haven't yet created ~/local/applications, quickemu --shortcut should tell me to do so, or do it for me.

Actual behaviour

Quickemu tells me that the shortcut it was supposed to create doesn't exist, then that it created it‽ I find no shortcut in my start menu, and realize that the folder to contain it doesn't exist.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Outline the step to reproduce the issue you've encountered.

Quickemu output

➜  quickemu --vm macos-monterey.conf --shortcut
/usr/bin/quickemu: line 937: /home/dale/.local/share/applications/macos-monterey.desktop: No such file or directory
Created macos-monterey.desktop file

➜  ls ~/.local/share/applications
ls: cannot access '/home/dale/.local/share/applications': No such file or directory

✗  mkdir ~/.local/share/applications

➜  quickemu --vm macos-monterey.conf --shortcut
Created macos-monterey.desktop file

Linux Distribution & Kernel

Run the following and paste the output.

➜  lsb_release --all
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 21.10
Release:    21.10
Codename:   impish

~ took 8s 
➜  uname -a
Linux octavia 5.13.0-20-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 15 14:21:35 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[dwvisser]

A little extra context:

➜  quickemu --version
2.3.0