| Summary: | Icon for program launching breaks when .desktop file deleted | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Frank Schmitt <tonne2004> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | asraniel, echidnaman, nathan, renda.krell, tyrerj |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Frank Schmitt
2008-07-11 10:48:25 UTC
"First bug" is obviously a problem that needs to be fixed. FWIW, for "Second bug" I think that it'd be more intuitive that a shortcut applet copy the details of a .desktop file rather than creating a shortcut to it when using drag and drop. the icon plasmoid should be made smarter is many ways. perhaps monitoring the linked file and closing itself when it got deleted? monitoring the linked file is one thing that should be done; but also not linking to a .desktop file if it represents an entry that we can grab as a kservice directly. *** Bug 166945 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Implementing Jason's suggestion would also make Application Launchers dragged from KMenu editable. Currently one cannot edit them at all since they point to the actual desktop file in /etc/path/to/desktop.desktop Re: Comment #5 In KDE-3.5, icons dragged from the menu are links. Perhaps the best choice in all cases is to have the little dialog that pops up and asks if you want to copy or link. However, icons dragged from the file system or a Folder View should _always_ be copies. IAC, there is a problem with the current links. Since they are links, you should not be allowed to click: "Icon Settings" and modify them. Another possibility would be that when you modify a link from the menu that the 'desktop' file is copied and the copy is modified. *** Bug 186418 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** With svn r954171 (kde 4.2.70), when I remove the application link in the folder view I get a message that says +/- "The file ..../application link.desktop does not exists". The problem (but this is another bug) is that until I close that message, I can not change desktops, nor applications clicking in the task bar. I'm changing this to a wishlist. Copy by default is not the wanted feature, but link is. So this is not a bug, but a feature request (beeing able to chose if a copy or a link is created) Hello! This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham |