Observed on current Manjaro - multiple computers. There are various problems even beyond what I describe, but until the basics are fixed, it's not worth describing. Apologies if I've selected the wrong component - I'm not sure how all these things work together. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Delete ~/.local/share/applications directory as if you'd started with a new profile. Close and re-open dolphin just to be sure. 1. Right-click in a folder and click Create New -> Link to Application... 2. Press OK. File is created: "Link to Application.desktop" 3. Right-click file and select Properties. 4. Click blank icon and select an icon, e.g. the smiley face. Click OK. Actual Results: Get message box popup: "Sorry -- Dolphin" : "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write to /home/[user name]/.local/share/applications/p." At this time there is no .local/share/applications directory. After you press OK, it will be created, along with a file named simply "p", the contents of which are: [Desktop Entry] Icon=face-smile Expected Results: I don't know the rationale behind the .local/share/applications directory, so I don't know what to expect, but it does seem rather worthless to create that 'p' file, and doesn't make sense why, if you go on to change the .desktop file you originally made (try changing the icon again), it creates an additional more detailed "n.desktop" file. It seems like any file that does end up in there, for whatever reason, should have the .desktop extension and that one file in there for each file out of there should be more than plenty, and that the icon I select should show up on the .desktop file I created (it doesn't), not just on some "p" or "n.desktop" file in a hidden settings directory. If you open "Link to Application.desktop" in kate it still says Icon=exec. You can modify that manually, and it will work. Deleted the silly .local/share/applications directory and things work just fine, as long as you don't mind manually creating .desktop files.
Created attachment 100276 [details] screenshot of error message
I cannot reproduce this on current master. In fact, creating a link to an application does not regenerate the deleted ~/.local/share/applications folder, not even when setting up an icon for that link. Does the same happen for you?
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