Bug 513984

Summary: Renaming desktop items will cause them to move
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Fernando Marcelino Muniz <fernandommuniz>
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: hein, kdedev
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 6.5.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: CachyOS   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 503500    
Attachments: Issue being reproduced.

Description Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2025-12-30 19:47:24 UTC
Created attachment 188090 [details]
Issue being reproduced.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create an item.
2. Rename the item.

OBSERVED RESULT
It will move.

EXPECTED RESULT
It should remain at the same place.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.2-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
Memory: 9 GB of RAM (8.1 GB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82MG
System Version: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IHU6
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-12-31 22:56:49 UTC
Thanks for the bug report, and the screen recording. That's helpful, it makes it clear how the bug looks.

In the video, there are no icons on the desktop before creating the new text file
After renaming it, the icon moves all the way to the left and near the top (about the second row)

I can reproduce this on Fedora 43 with Plasma 6.5.4
I'm not able to reproduce this in Plasma built from git-master or Plasma 6.5.4 on Solus. There has been a decent amount of work done on icon positioning lately, so it looks like this has also been fixed.

If you still see this bug in Plasma 6.6, please feel free to reopen this bug.