On 24/11/24 10:38, Stephen Morris wrote:
I've done some further checking on this and it may be that the install of Google-Chrome didn't put a softlink in ~/Desktop. With the Google-Chrome.desktop file still in ~/Desktop, I've clicked on the KDE throbber and dragged the Google Chrome entry to the desktop which has then prompted for "Copy Here", "Link Here" or "Widget->Add Icon". If I select "Link Here" it pops up a dialogue box asking me to change the name of the .desktop file as doing the copy was going to overwrite /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop with itself, so I may have originally created the softlink by doing that after installing Google-Chrome from its repository.On 23/11/24 16:20, Tim wrote: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.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).
regards, Steve
regards, Steve
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