I posted a question a while back about an issue with icons on the KDE desktop. No conclusion was drawn. I have new info. The issue is that when clicking on a file.desktop icon in Dolphin, the file is opened in kate. The expected behavior is, or course, to run the application defined in the file.desktop file. An example of such a file is: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] BinaryPattern= Comment[en_US]=Configure RSofT Comment=Configure RSofT Exec=xterm -geometry 110x55 -T "Configure RSofT" -e change GenericName[en_US]= GenericName= Icon=/opt/rsoft/lib/images/icons/setup.png MimeType= Name[en_US]=Configure RSofT Name=Configure RSofT Path= ServiceTypes= StartupNotify=true SwallowExec= SwallowTitle= Terminal=false Type=Application X-DBUS-ServiceName= X-DBUS-StartupType=none X-DCOP-ServiceType=none X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username= Things are inconsistent. In Dolphin, the Type is correctly listed as "desktop configuration file". And the icon shown for it is the one defined in the file. And when right-clicking on it to edit it's Properties, a dialog for editing these kinds of files is shown. The Application tab has the expected fields for a .desktop file. However, when clicking on the icon, it opens in the kate editor. Upon further investigation, I see that the file association for *.desktop files is set to kate. It is like this on openSUSE 42.3 and on Tumbleweed. Surely this is incorrect. The icon does everything it should do - except it's main business: run the application it defines. There is not much utility in an icon that does not execute the command it defines. Am I missing something? Is the file association for *.desktop files wrong? If so, what should it be? If not, what use are these files? Note that when on the desktop, they do execute when clicked on. But they do not do this anywhere else. I am fairly certain that back in the dark days of KDE3 they executed in Dolphin no matter where they were located. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org