On 23/11/24 16:20, Tim wrote:

On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 10:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:

All I'm doing is right clicking on a desktop icon with the mouse,
where the icon is a soft link, that was create by the install of a
package from it repository (Google Chrome), selected properties and
tried to check the "Launch Feedback" option, and the click "OK", and 
it displays a message that the action failed on the file in
~/Desktop, which is wrong as I own them all.

Where does that icon's link point to?

Usually these things are not installed to somewhere inside the user's
homespace, even if a launch file is.  And those installed files are
usually not owned by the user either (it's a security/safety risk).

In the case of the Google Chrome soft link in ~/Desktop it is pointing to /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop.
Other than the icon for eclipse which is a softlink to /home/steve/.local/share/applications/epp.package.committers.desktop the chrome icon is the only softlink on the desktop. The other icons were created by me by right clicking on the desktop and select "Create New->Link to Application" which has created the .desktop files in ~/Desktop which aren't softlinks.

regards,
Steve