| Summary: | Draw symlink emblem for desktop icons with no thumbnail that are symlinks | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Justin Jacobs <jajdorkster> |
| Component: | Desktop icons & Folder View widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | dave.lindbergh, hein, nate, tbertels |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | junior-jobs |
| Version First Reported In: | 5.27.9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Example showing the difference between symlinks that do/don't have thumbnails | ||
Can reproduce on Plasma 6 too. It appears that this is a missing feature in Folder View. It simply lacks the code to draw the link emblem, which Dolphin does do. The link emblem for the preview is actually baked into the preview image, explaining why it appears there. If we do eventually add this feature to Folder View, we should probably make it conditional on the link not being a desktop file, since otherwise all desktop-file-based launchers that people put on their desktops will have the link icon and it will look ugly and I pretty much guaranteed we'll get loads of bug reports about it. More info from https://discuss.kde.org/t/symlink-icons-not-appearing/9277 : Screen shot showing two folders on the desktop, both are symlinks, but one has the overlay and the other doesn’t: https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/26e8399232546d43e7710e7bd4475cefa414e4e3.png Here you can see the two files in ~/Desktop: '''dave@MONOLITH:~/Desktop$ ll WD* lrwxrwxrwx 1 dave dave 18 Nov 16 21:12 WD10TB -> /media/dave/WD10TB/ dave@MONOLITH:~/Desktop$ ll Li* lrwxrwxrwx 1 dave dave 37 Dec 8 11:42 Linux_setup -> /home/dave/Desktop/WD10TB/Linux_setup/ dave@MONOLITH:~/Desktop$''' |
Created attachment 163591 [details] Example showing the difference between symlinks that do/don't have thumbnails SUMMARY As stated in the title, this only seems to happen for desktop icons without thumbnails. It also only happens on the desktop as far as I can tell, since symlinks in Dolphin look correct. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. (Not required) Turn off "Show preview thumbnails" under Desktop Folder Settings -> Icons 2. Create a symlink on the desktop to a file or folder OBSERVED RESULT No symlink emblem on icons EXPECTED RESULT Visible symlink emblem on icons SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11