Bug 231327 - Emoticon Icon themes can only be added, edit and removed as root
Summary: Emoticon Icon themes can only be added, edit and removed as root
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_emoticons (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Carlo Segato
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: 186314 229887 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-03-19 17:10 UTC by niburu1
Modified: 2021-03-12 21:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description niburu1 2010-03-19 17:10:50 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

In systemsettings (System Settings) one cannot edit emoticon themes unless they are root (e.g. by running 'kdesudo systemsettings'). This is odd. I imagine emoticons are stored in some root folder that non-root users don't have permissions to. This ought to be changed. At least, one should be able to create a new theme which is stored in some subfolder of the home folder.
Comment 1 Carlo Segato 2010-03-19 17:21:01 UTC
the default emoticon theme is stored in /usr/share/emoticons, so it's available to all users, you can either change the permissions of the emoticon theme folder to be able to write it as normal user or copy the theme in ~/.kde/share/emoticons
Comment 2 disabled account 2010-06-06 22:44:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> the default emoticon theme is stored in /usr/share/emoticons, so it's available
> to all users, you can either change the permissions of the emoticon theme
> folder to be able to write it as normal user or copy the theme in
> ~/.kde/share/emoticons

But still this is not the way it is supposed to be, when a user opens up system settings and goes to emoticons he is gonna wonder why he can not change a thing here.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-04-20 18:08:07 UTC
*** Bug 229887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2013-04-20 18:08:38 UTC
*** Bug 186314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-03-12 21:14:28 UTC
This KCM was removed in the transition from Plasma 5.19.5 to 5.20.0 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/3cd728de38b771c84c0cfdf68eac84715637e76f