Bug 490891

SUMMARY

The KDE Plasma desktop does not remember manual positioning of desktop icons.
I have had this problem with Plasma 5 and it still occures with Plasma 6.

KDE Plasma 6 is almost perfect, runs really well. I have only two issues - this icon problem and the fact that Wayland don't support window positioning so I again can use the window rules to position my windows and dialogboxes where I want them.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Manually position your desktop icons
2. Use your computer, or reboot your computer, or turn the monitor off


OBSERVED RESULT

My computer always runs, the icon repositioning sometimes occures when I turn off the monitor and go to bed, the next day I turn on the monitor and the icons have been repositioned.
Other times it occures when I log on again after either reboot or logoff.


EXPECTED RESULT

I expect that manually positioned icons STAY at their position in the grid, regardless of what happens.
New icons can be placed as configured in "Arrange" and "Align", as it is working today.
When a icon is outside the screen bounds, the icon can be moved into view as if it was a new icon - or better yet, a new configuration could be added with options like "Scroll desktop", "Move icon", "Do nothing".

A new feature could be a "Lock position" toggleble option on each desktop icon, so you can lock a icon on another monitor even when that monitor is turned off. There should also be a menu option (function) like "Move hidden locked icons into view".


NOTES

Desktop icon positions are stored in the configuration file "$HOME/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc"
Other bug reports can be opened with "https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=######"


SIMILAR/RELATED BUG REPORTS

Here is a compiled list of similar, perhaps related, bug reports, regarding desktop icon positioning.

482875	6	?	Desktop icons reset positions to alphabetical order after a long time from auto shut-off of screen (Wayland)
484806	6	?	Desktop icons rearrange when disconnecting and reconnecting external screen
486528	6	W	Desktop icons being mixed sometimes after a reboot
483770	6	?	Icons position on the desktop get scrambled with multimonitor
482211	6	W	Desktop icons sorted by name were occasionally unsorted when starting Plasma

476928	5	X	Plasma Desktop Icons are regularly scrambled after boot
472137	5	?	Icons are changing positions after some time
471045	5	W	Dolphin 24.02.2 - Plasma 6.04 Wayland is not respecting the positions of the icons on the desktop
469276	5	?	Desktop icons reset positions to alphabetical order at random time when fullscreen app is open
467405	5	?	Desktop Icons that were arranged in a custom order become alphabetically sorted automatically after a period of time
466869	5	X	Desktop icons reset positions after changing screen setup
453314	5	?	When changing display resolutions, desktop icons should try to keep the same position as much as possible

469062	5	W	Moving some icons on primary screen while secondary screen is unplugged resets icon positions on the secondary screen
468546	5	X	Desktop icons reset position when switching between laptop and external displays with different resolutions
433867	5	?	Icons on rotated secondary screen reset to default positions or move to random positions on login/wake-from-sleep


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon 6.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.0
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-44-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland