What's in the Desktop file in /Icons?

[jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

In article <58vkeq$gvv@news.dal.ca>,
Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>Thanks to everyone for their help on this.  Dumping the 67K Desktop file 
>in Icons did the trick.
>
>: >   When I select a program folder to run a program; when the folder 
>: >opens, only some of the names or icons will show.  The rest of the folder
>: >is just color bands similar to Apple's colors.


So what was in that file he trashed?  I too have a desktop file
on most of my partitions, and I'd like to get rid of them, but
i don't know what they do.  I've seen the finder create them
for me, but I'm not sure of the risk of deleting them

I know they hold icons and links to applications to boot for them,
but where did they come from?
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