Bug 231327

Summary:	Emoticon Icon themes can only be added, edit and removed as root
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	niburu1
Component:	kcm_emoticons	Assignee:	Carlo Segato <brandon.ml>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aspotashev, caionnew, justin.zobel, mprizee, whashnez
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description niburu1 2010-03-19 17:10:50 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

In systemsettings (System Settings) one cannot edit emoticon themes unless they are root (e.g. by running 'kdesudo systemsettings'). This is odd. I imagine emoticons are stored in some root folder that non-root users don't have permissions to. This ought to be changed. At least, one should be able to create a new theme which is stored in some subfolder of the home folder.

Comment 1 Carlo Segato 2010-03-19 17:21:01 UTC

the default emoticon theme is stored in /usr/share/emoticons, so it's available to all users, you can either change the permissions of the emoticon theme folder to be able to write it as normal user or copy the theme in ~/.kde/share/emoticons

Comment 2 disabled account 2010-06-06 22:44:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> the default emoticon theme is stored in /usr/share/emoticons, so it's available
> to all users, you can either change the permissions of the emoticon theme
> folder to be able to write it as normal user or copy the theme in
> ~/.kde/share/emoticons

But still this is not the way it is supposed to be, when a user opens up system settings and goes to emoticons he is gonna wonder why he can not change a thing here.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-04-20 18:08:07 UTC

*** Bug 229887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2013-04-20 18:08:38 UTC

*** Bug 186314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-03-12 21:14:28 UTC

This KCM was removed in the transition from Plasma 5.19.5 to 5.20.0 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/3cd728de38b771c84c0cfdf68eac84715637e76f