Bug 424421 - Desktop "location" setting does absolutely nothing
Summary: Desktop "location" setting does absolutely nothing
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widget (show other bugs)
Version: 5.18.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2020-07-19 15:00 UTC by php4fan
Modified: 2020-08-17 16:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description php4fan 2020-07-19 15:00:24 UTC
SUMMARY

Currently I have the desktop's "location" setting set to "desktop folder"

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Right click on the background of the desktop
2. Go to "Configure Desktop", then to "Location"
3. Change the setting to "Custom folder"
4. Select my home folder
5. Click "Apply" and "Ok"

OBSERVED RESULT

Nothing changes, the desktop is still showing the contents of the desktop folder.

Even "refresh desktop" has no effect

EXPECTED RESULT

should work

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-40-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2020-07-19 17:30:11 UTC
works fine for me on git master
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2020-07-20 09:20:27 UTC
Please include your ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2020-08-04 04:33:11 UTC
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Comment 4 php4fan 2020-08-04 16:23:26 UTC
This was just one of a bunch of issues I was observing during a particular session (I think the first one after installing Plasma) where something had crashed at startup or something, and basically nothing was working.

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424418#c2