On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:22 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > The problem only occurs when the desktop icon is created as a link.
Yes, you had the reason why a link is doing that in a prior message in this thread. > 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. And that explanation covered why you would copy a desktop file, rather than link to it. > Is that the intentional behaviour? I'd say so. You've been given two choices about what to do with the thing you want to create a short-cut to (copy or link). If you want to modify it in some way, copy it and modify it. If you just want to use it as-is, you can simply link to it. The short-cut creation menu choices has already provided you with what you need. I think the issue may be that you're used to some old behaviour where you can "create a short-cut" to something, and that shortcut always was simply a copy of the desktop file. Once more: A *copy* creates a desktop file in your space that you own, and you can modify. The original desktop launcher file (elsewhere on the system) will not be changed, and will be ignored. A *link* points to a file somewhere else on the system, and if that somewhere else isn't owned by you (it won't be, in this case), you can't modify it. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ 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
