Bug 10419

Summary: pcmanfm needs separate options for desktop backgrounds and icons
Product: Mageia Reporter: bozonius <bozonius>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: bozonius, stormi-mageia, sysadmin-bugs
Version: 3Keywords: UPSTREAM
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description bozonius 2013-06-04 03:16:52 CEST 
Description of problem:
pcmanfm --desktop option provides support for separate desktop backgrounds for different desktops.  But it also creates the desktop icons, which should be a separate option.  A user may want different desktop backgrounds but not the icons.  The reverse is possible (with icons, but having same background on all desktops) by simply dropping the --desktop option.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pcmanfm
M3 release version (pcmanfm-1.1.0-4.mga3)

How reproducible:
Very.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Try disabling --desktop; you get rid of icons, but no way to have different backgrounds on different desktops
2.  Try removing icons; they come back next login

Workaround:
I discovered, after much struggle, that setting the perms on Desktop directory in home to 555 (i.e., read-only) after removing the contents (*.desktop files) solves this.  But I did not see this documented anywhere and it may not be an ideal or even "safe" solution (i.e., I do not know what this may do to other aspects of pcmanfm's behavior).

This is filed against pcmanfm on sourceforge as 3614303.  Filed as a bug there, but not sure if this is really a defect or enhancement.  I'm filing it as an enhancement here since this is an external package.

Note that pcmanfm is part of mga's LXDE environment.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
bozonius 2013-06-04 03:17:53 CEST

CC: (none) => bozonius, sysadmin-bugs
Component: RPM Packages => Release (media or process)

Samuel Verschelde 2014-01-10 21:41:18 CET

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM
CC: (none) => stormi

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:29 CEST 
Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD