Bug 145311 - desktop icons: symlinks have locks
Summary: desktop icons: symlinks have locks
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kio
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2007-05-11 13:24 UTC by Maciej Pilichowski
Modified: 2018-04-23 20:50 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-05-11 13:24:43 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I put symlinks on desktop and all symlinked files have locks. Why? Those are normal files, and I have privilege to write.
Comment 1 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-05-11 14:18:01 UTC 
It is not the bug nature I was thinking of -- kdesktop prerenders all icons, they are not dynamically changed and this is a bug, because you can change the priviliges or change symlink.

In this case symlinks are in partition A, while the actual files are in B, since KDE starts, and then mounting occurs, kdesktop assumes files are read-only, thus locks.
Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-12-10 03:19:15 UTC 
@Maciej: can you test this situation on KDE 4 (with plasma) too?
Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-12-12 10:13:50 UTC 
KDE4.1.3 -- still present.
Comment 4 David Faure 2009-02-10 23:43:00 UTC 
I don't really see how we could solve this; the symlink itself isn't changed, it's the thing it points to, that can appear/disappear without us knowing about it... I guess the only way to know it would be to have KDirWatch watch the target of the symlink (especially if it doesn't exist yet).... complex.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-04-23 20:50:20 UTC 
Works for me in KDE Frameworks 5.45. Links get a link icon, not a lock icon.