Bug 475280

Summary: [Feature Request] Icons of mounted partitions on Desktop
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Chromer <downloader030>
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: hein, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Chromer 2023-10-06 13:05:39 UTC
SUMMARY
Please add the feature of auto adding the icons of every mounted partition (device) on desktop.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110
Qt Version: 5.15.10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-10-11 20:36:55 UTC
Why, out of curiosity? Do you have a use case for this?
Comment 2 Chromer 2023-10-12 11:08:26 UTC
For easier files management.
Users on macOS have this feature and when swithing to KDE, partition management is somehow tricky for them.

It can be an option not a absolute enabled feature.

Thanks for consideration.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-10-12 21:58:55 UTC
Thanks.

Note that this isn't a partition management feature, it's just a way to quickly access or unmount those disks. And we have one of those too: click on the Disks & Devices icon in the System Tray. It's not exactly the same thing, but it serves the same purpose.

Unfortunately I think we have to say no to this feature as proposed. We already have a lot of trouble getting icons on the desktop to stay where you put them, and also showing mounted disks would introduce automatically appearing and disappearing elements and complicate that puzzle even more.