Version: 4.5 (using KDE 4.5.1) OS: Linux Hi, I use my KDE desktop according to the traditional Windows-style paradigm. My desktop is set to "Folder View", pointing to ~/Desktop. I have two permanent icons on the top left of my screen. The rest of the time, I save temporary files onto my desktop. I have set my desktop to "Unsorted" icons, and arranged by "Top to bottom, Right to left". But most times when I save or modify a file on my desktop, it rearranges all my icons, including the ones that should stay on the top left, onto the top right side. I only want my new temporary files to be saved to the top right. This worked fine in the last releases of 4.4.x, but broke again for 4.5.x. Thanks a lot! Reproducible: Sometimes
Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, KDE 4.5.1 This bug also affects me. When I rearrange icons with my workspace activity set to Folder View, they will persist. However, my Firefox is set to download files to that folder, which creates a temporary .part file while it is downloading. Once that .part file disappears after the download finishes, the desktop un-arranges itself back to the default unsorted top-down, left-right, folders first view and I am forced to rearrange my icons each time. This appears to only happen similar to how the parent post describes. I suspect that there may be an issue with how new files are deleted that might be affecting this. For example: * If I right-click and create a new text file right on the folder view, it creates fine and doesn't rearrange anything. * If I delete that file, the icon locations aren't affected. * If I save a web page in Firefox to the desktop, the icon locations aren't affected. * If Firefox deletes a file from the desktop (i.e., that temporary .part file created for downloads), the desktop rearranges itself. For instance, download a PDF to the desktop folder view and once that .part file disappears, the desktop will un-arrange itself. The last reproducible case is the only one I have of this bug at the moment. I hope this is fixed sometime soon. I remember a regression like this in KDE 4.2. Thanks. :)
Found another test case that reproduces this bug. Right click any icon on folder view. Properties. Click OK.
I have this issue here as well. Debian SID KDE 4.5.1 Note that even locking the icons doesn't seem to stop the rearranging from occurring.
It is very annoying! Displaying icons on the desktop is one of the core functionality of a desktop environment like KDE is one. For me it becomes so irrelevant which ever features a DE has if it cannot handle icons on the screen. Why is there a "lock position" menue entry when it does not keep the icons on its position? Why keeps KDE sorting the icons even none of the sort options is selected? Has noone tested this? Anyway, you can reproduce that in "folder view" mode. Simply copy on of the menue entries in Kmenue to the desktop. This is the first action where the icons get sorted. The new icon has a exclamation mark - when double-clicking on the icon to start the prog, the icon changes (removes the !) and your icons on desktop get sorted again. It seems so that every action which does a change in the icons will trigger a rearrangement of the icons. Even throwing something into the trash does change its icon ==> icons sorted. So please, if possible, have an eye on this, if i remember right, in 4.3 it was no problem, i think it was reintroduced with 4.4 (but i'm not sure) and still exist in 4.5. Thanks!
Hi, can we please get this bug marked as "Confirmed"? Thanks!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 227157 ***