On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:23 PM Frank Bures buresf@gmail.com wrote:
On 2024-11-20 13:06, Frank Bures wrote:
I was talking about right-clicking an icon on the desktop, clicking Properties and then trying to save the change by clicking OK. That's when the error message is generated.
I believe this should work right-off-the-box, otherwise I do not understand why the Properties item is even in the menu.
This is interesting.
The problem only occurs when the desktop icon is created as a link.
How to reproduce - plasma desktop:
- Click on Fedora symbol on the task bar.
- Enter the search string into the search field, i.e. Thunderbird
- Drug the result (Thundebird) to the desktop.
- A drop list appears
- Choose "Link here"
- Properties of the icon created in such a way cannot be changed
However, if one chooses "Copy here" in 5 above, the properties of the created icon can be changed.
Is that the intentional behaviour?
Likely. You user does not have write access to /usr/share, where the desktop icons reside on disk.
$ find /usr/share -name "*.desktop" /usr/share/kinfocenter/categories/lostfoundcategory.desktop /usr/share/kinfocenter/categories/networkinfocategory.desktop /usr/share/kinfocenter/categories/graphicalinfocategory.desktop /usr/share/kinfocenter/categories/deviceinfocategory.desktop /usr/share/kinfocenter/categories/basicinformation.desktop /usr/share/kinfocenter/categories/detailedinformation.desktop ...
I suppose you could modify the source of the link if you used gksudo... but I do what you did -- I copy the icon to my desktop, and modify it at its new home.
In the old days, you also had to chmod +x <package>.desktop. I don't think you need to do it anymore. If you have trouble, then add +x.
I do not remember seeing it in F40.
Jeff