Created attachment 159677 [details] A comparison of the text at small-medium icon size SUMMARY When one drags a desktop file from Kickoff to the desktop, one can select whether it should be copied or linked. Linked desktop files have a chain emblem and italicized text. But even on a 1440px monitor, the italicized text looks less clear than the pixel-aligned upright text of copied desktop files. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Drag an application from Kickoff to desktop and select "copy" 2. Drag an application from Kickoff to desktop and select "link" OBSERVED RESULT The linked .desktop file's text looks less clear EXPECTED RESULT Both use the regular font variant SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230610 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9 Kernel Version: 6.3.6-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
One has to wonder, what's even the point of telling a user that their .desktop file is a symlink? For all intents and purposes it's just a launcher for something, which is single- or double-clickable. Although, another story is that from what I see on Steam Deck, downloading random .desktop files with `Exec=sh -c "curl | bash"` seems to be a common way to ship "auto-installers" these days. And often those "installers" fetch and symlink to desktop a bunch of other .desktop launchers.
I prefer symlinks in case a package updates its .desktop file. Dolphin uses the chain emblem and the italicized text as well, but I think while that is useful information in a file manager, the emblem is sufficient on the desktop.
This has been proposed before and rejected, sorry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461450 ***