Bug 306885

Summary: Folder view shows .desktop extension when using custom folder
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Vincent Petry <PVince81>
Component: widget-folderviewAssignee: Ignat Semenov <i.semenov.kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.8.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Vincent Petry 2012-09-16 13:50:31 UTC
I have created a "gaming" activity and would like to have all game shortcuts in a folder view.
See steps for details.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a directory "$HOME/Desktop/games"
2. Copy the shortcut of a game into that directory (for example KMines).
3. Create a "gaming" activity and switch to it.
4. Create a folder view on the desktop.
5. Configure the folder view to point to "$HOME/Desktop/games" instead of the regular desktop folder
Actual Results:  
The game's shortcut appears as "kmines.desktop".

Expected Results:  
In my example, the game's shortcut should appear as "KMines" instead of "kmines.desktop".
The folder view should recognize shortcuts from any folder, not only from the desktop folder, and render them appropriately. (or have an option to switch this feature on)

The workaround is to manually rename every shortcut from "$HOME/Desktop/games" to what I want them to display. This means I need to remove the ".desktop" extension.
Fortunately, the icon is still rendered properly.
Comment 1 Ignat Semenov 2012-12-30 11:19:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207391 ***