Re: After upgrade to F41 unable to change propeties of Plasma desktop icons

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On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:22 -0500, Frank Bures wrote:
> The problem only occurs when the desktop icon is created as a link.

Yes, you had the reason why a link is doing that in a prior message in
this thread.

> How to reproduce - plasma desktop:
> 
> 1. Click on Fedora symbol on the task bar.
> 2. Enter the search string into the search field, i.e. Thunderbird
> 3. Drug the result (Thundebird) to the desktop.
> 4. A drop list appears
> 5. Choose "Link here"
> 6. Properties of the icon created in such a way cannot be changed
> 
> However, if one chooses "Copy here" in 5 above,
> the properties of the created icon can be changed.

And that explanation covered why you would copy a desktop file, rather
than link to it.

> Is that the intentional behaviour?

I'd say so.  You've been given two choices about what to do with the
thing you want to create a short-cut to (copy or link).  If you want to
modify it in some way, copy it and modify it.  If you just want to use
it as-is, you can simply link to it.  The short-cut creation menu
choices has already provided you with what you need.

I think the issue may be that you're used to some old behaviour where
you can "create a short-cut" to something, and that shortcut always was
simply a copy of the desktop file.

Once more:

A *copy* creates a desktop file in your space that you own, and you can
modify.  The original desktop launcher file (elsewhere on the system)
will not be changed, and will be ignored.

A *link* points to a file somewhere else on the system, and if that
somewhere else isn't owned by you (it won't be, in this case), you
can't modify it.

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