Bug 145311

Summary:	desktop icons: symlinks have locks
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-05-11 13:24:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I put symlinks on desktop and all symlinked files have locks. Why? Those are normal files, and I have privilege to write.

Comment 1 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-05-11 14:18:01 UTC

It is not the bug nature I was thinking of -- kdesktop prerenders all icons, they are not dynamically changed and this is a bug, because you can change the priviliges or change symlink.

In this case symlinks are in partition A, while the actual files are in B, since KDE starts, and then mounting occurs, kdesktop assumes files are read-only, thus locks.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-12-10 03:19:15 UTC

@Maciej: can you test this situation on KDE 4 (with plasma) too?

Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-12-12 10:13:50 UTC

KDE4.1.3 -- still present.

Comment 4 David Faure 2009-02-10 23:43:00 UTC

I don't really see how we could solve this; the symlink itself isn't changed, it's the thing it points to, that can appear/disappear without us knowing about it... I guess the only way to know it would be to have KDirWatch watch the target of the symlink (especially if it doesn't exist yet).... complex.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 20:50:20 UTC

Works for me in KDE Frameworks 5.45. Links get a link icon, not a lock icon.