Bug 62282

Summary:	Desktop Icons Rearranged Every Startup
Product:	kdesktop	Reporter:	Jim Simon <jss1138>
Component:	icons	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.1.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Before logout After login

Description Jim Simon 2003-08-07 00:35:47 UTC

Version:           3.1.3 (using KDE KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMsSuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB-athlon

Every time I log in, my destop icons are not arranged in the position I last left them, forcing me to place them anew where I'd like them to be.  I have noticed this same bug with several older versions of KDE, and most reported CLOSED or FIXED, yet here we are with KDE 3.1.3, and the bug stil exists.

It seems like it should be a simple matter to have a .config file save the desktop icon positions (and names, sometimes they change also) and load that upon each login so that all is as it was upon logout.  Yet according the the bug reports, KDE hasn't been able to do this reliably since version 1.0  What gives?

Comment 1 Jim Simon 2003-08-15 21:00:17 UTC

After some observations, I have noticed a pattern to the unexpected 
re-arrangement of desktop icons.  It seems that KDE places the DVD-ROM icon in 
the second position down from the top left corner, then the windowsC icon below 
that.  The icons that were in those positions are moved so that those two can 
occupy the second and third positions every time.  This happens for all users.

Comment 2 Jim Simon 2004-01-10 04:17:13 UTC

This problem doesn't seem to exists with KDE 3.1.4, so I am closing it.

Comment 3 Łukasz Derkacz 2005-11-09 16:17:34 UTC

This problem exist in KDE 3.4.2. But appeared when I put more icons on my desktop. See the attachements.

Comment 4 Łukasz Derkacz 2005-11-09 16:22:14 UTC

Created attachment 13360 [details]
Before logout

Comment 5 Łukasz Derkacz 2005-11-09 16:22:55 UTC

Created attachment 13361 [details]
After login

Comment 6 Łukasz Derkacz 2005-11-09 16:24:27 UTC

Never mind. It's resolved in 3.5.
Sorry for bothering.

Comment 7 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:22:39 UTC

Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.