On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:23 PM Frank Bures <bur...@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: > > 1. Click on Fedora symbol on the task bar. > 2. Enter the search string into the search field, i.e. Thunderbird > 3. Drug the result (Thundebird) to the desktop. > 4. A drop list appears > 5. Choose "Link here" > 6. 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 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
