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

[Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/11/24 10:38, Stephen Morris wrote:

On 23/11/24 16:20, Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 10:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:

All I'm doing is right clicking on a desktop icon with the mouse,
where the icon is a soft link, that was create by the install of a
package from it repository (Google Chrome), selected properties and
tried to check the "Launch Feedback" option, and the click "OK", and 
it displays a message that the action failed on the file in
~/Desktop, which is wrong as I own them all.

Where does that icon's link point to?

Usually these things are not installed to somewhere inside the user's
homespace, even if a launch file is.  And those installed files are
usually not owned by the user either (it's a security/safety risk).
 

In the case of the Google Chrome soft link in ~/Desktop it is pointing to /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop.
Other than the icon for eclipse which is a softlink to /home/steve/.local/share/applications/epp.package.committers.desktop the chrome icon is the only softlink on the desktop. The other icons were created by me by right clicking on the desktop and select "Create New->Link to Application" which has created the .desktop files in ~/Desktop which aren't softlinks.

    I've done some further checking on this and it may be that the
    install of Google-Chrome didn't put a softlink in ~/Desktop.
    With the Google-Chrome.desktop file still in ~/Desktop, I've clicked
    on the KDE throbber and dragged the Google Chrome entry to the
    desktop which has then prompted for "Copy Here", "Link Here" or
    "Widget->Add Icon". If I select "Link Here" it pops up a dialogue
    box asking me to change the name of the .desktop file as doing the
    copy was going to overwrite
    /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop with itself, so I may
    have originally created the softlink by doing that after installing
    Google-Chrome from its repository.
    
    regards,
    Steve
    
>       regards,
>       Steve
>

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