On Tuesday 05 August 2008 17:28:46 Kishore wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Aug 2008 9:32:31 pm Anne Wilson wrote: > > I've just got F9 with 4.1 working on a usb stick, for use with my > > EeePC, installed from the LiveCD iso. This, of course, puts an Install > > icon on the desktop. Thinking that maybe I should move it rather than > > delete it, I opened /home/Desktop and dragged it into a folder, so that > > I'm not likely to start an install by accident. > > > > To my surprise, although the Desktop folder now shows no icons, I can > > still see it actually on the Desktop. Before I delete it, I'd like to > > clear up what is obviously a misunderstanding on my part > > Is this icon inside a folder view widget? No. It's directly on the desktop, put there because the stick is running Fedora 9 Live CD. > If not then its likely an "icon > widget". These icon widgets have nothing directly to do with the icons in > the desktop folder. However, in early stages of plasma (in 4.0 too), plasma > would at startup create a desktop icon for each file found in the desktop > folder just to give the traditional desktop feel. This actually seemed to > work real bad and changes in the desktop folder would not result in changes > on the desktop and vice versa. Now that you have moved the file out of the > desktop folder restart plasma to see if the icon would still come back. The > standard behaviour of plasma in 4.1 does not do this but still try... > > In any case it should be safe to take it off the desktop. It did come back. However, there is a copy safely put away in a folder called TakeCare :-) so I've removed it. Thanks Anne
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