Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2015, 19:56:46 schrieb Istvan Gabor:
Now I have default icons like Firefox, KInfoCenter etc on the desktop and a widget (Desktop folder widget?) which has the very same icons. If I create a new icon as Right click -> Create New -> Link to Location (URL)... : Filename: Trashcan, URL: trash:/, it places the trashcan icon on the desktop. Bit it won't have the .desktop extension in the Desktop directory while the other icon names have the extension. See the attached image:
http://i61.tinypic.com/11mg3ky.png
If I rename Trashcan to Trashcan.desktop its name will change both on the desktop and in the Desktop directory (while other icon names have the extension only in the folder but not in the icons on the desktop).
Ok, you're right. Creating it with "Create New"->"Link to Location (URL)" will not add a .desktop extension, but KDE recognizes it as .desktop file anyway. If you rename it to xxx.desktop in a file manager, it will also show as xxx.desktop on the desktop, that is correct too. But you can get rid of the .desktop extension on the desktop by right-clicking on the icon, choosing "Properties" and editing the name there. This will not change the filename, only the name that is displayed (specified inside the .desktop file). It shouldn't matter at all though whether the file has the .desktop ending or not. This is not Windows...
My folderview icons (with the default settings) do look the same as your (and my) widget.
Again, you probably changed the appearance of the icons in the folderview's settings (text color, changed to white, shadow deactivated).
OK, in the above images you can see that the regular icons and the widget icon look different despite I haven't changed anything except the default desktop layout to folder layout. This is openSUSE 13.2 default desktop, default theme etc, still the items look different. It looks ugly.
Well, in the folderview widget, the icons look the same then the trashcan widget. That's what I meant. I don't use the folder layout, so I wasn't aware it has a different default. You can change the icon text settings for the icons on the desktop though, by right-clicking on an empty space and choosing "Folder Settings". Set the icon color to black, and they will look the same as the ones in the folderview and trashcan widgets... But IIUYC, that's not really what you want, as you seem to find it "ugly". Well, try to switch to a desktop theme with white text color then. I don't think there's another way to make them look the same.
For plasma there are no icons, only widgets. The "icons" are just some graphics that the folderview widget displays.
And you can place widgets on top of each other.
So, no bug, but a feature/design decision.
You can call it feature if you think it sounds better. (: KDE4 has some of this type of 'features'.
Like any other desktop, I suppose... Anyway, just because you don't like it, doesn't make it a bug. It is a bug when something doesn't work as intended (by the developers), or when the way something works makes it impossible to use it. That widgets are not the same as (old-style) desktop icons and don't behave the same either is no bug. And it doesn't really matter what I (or you, for that matter) call it here anyway. Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org