Bug 496982

Summary:	Desktop icons get reset and reordered while the user account is locked
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	kde-bugzilla
Component:	Desktop icons & Folder View widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hein, kdedev, nate, p.r.worrall
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468546 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482211
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	503500

Description kde-bugzilla 2024-12-03 12:24:36 UTC

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SUMMARY
When locking my user account and going away for a while, when I come back, I notice my desktop icons get rearranged and go back to being to the side (seems like in alphabetical order), while I usually put two apps on the other side.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Put a bunch of application icons in the desktop
2. Lock the user account
3. Go away for a while (?)
4. Unlock the user account

OBSERVED RESULT
Desktop icons get reordered

EXPECTED RESULT
Desktop icons stay where they are

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 13.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Not sure if the version set is correct, I use Fedora Linux 41 however and it's the latest version on there, has been happening for a while, well, for as long as I've used KDE which hasn't been toooo long, a few months though.

Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-12-11 00:54:13 UTC

This is the same behavior that was fixed in bug 468546 in 6.2.0, there may be a regression
I can't reproduce this on git-master, and have had a bunch of icons on the desktop for months.

Can you confirm the settings if you right click the desktop and go to Icons -> Sort By ? Thanks!

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2024-12-26 03:47:32 UTC

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Comment 3 kde-bugzilla 2024-12-28 17:13:22 UTC

(In reply to TraceyC from comment #1)
> This is the same behavior that was fixed in bug 468546 in 6.2.0, there may
> be a regression
> I can't reproduce this on git-master, and have had a bunch of icons on the
> desktop for months.
> 
> Can you confirm the settings if you right click the desktop and go to Icons
> -> Sort By ? Thanks!

I swear I replied to this a few hours ago,
anyway, in there I said that my Sort By settings are in "No ordering, folders first" and that I was gonna try reproducing it again (as I'd stopped using the icons because they were broken)
I can still reproduce this, even after a bunch of formatting and starting over I did in the mean time.

I meant to reply to this earlier but, I didn't notice whatever notification I got until the bot warned me about it..

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 18:01:18 UTC

This specific one should actually be fixed in Plasma 6.3.

Do feel free to re-open it if you still experience *exactly* the same issue after upgrading to 6.3, though. Thanks!