Bug 10420

Summary:	removing desktop icon in lxde (pcmanfm) removes contents, not just icon!
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	bozonius <bozonius>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	stormi-mageia
Version:	3	Keywords:	Triaged, UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lxde-common	CVE:
Status comment:

Description bozonius 2013-06-04 03:34:17 CEST

Description of problem:
Removing an icon from the lxde desktop that "links" to an actual file system directory (e.g., in $HOME) removes the contents of that directory, not just the icon!  This results in undesirable destruction of files and directories.  

This is very non-standard behavior for icons. It may be the case in some desktop software packages that removal of icons is tied to the removal of the pointed-at contents.  I have never experienced this before lxde/pcmanfm.

I have filed this as BUG  3614304 against pcmanfm on sourceforge.

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

How reproducible:
Nauseatingly so.

Steps to Reproduce (one method, anyway):
1.  Make Directory in $HOME unreadable and unwritable.
2.  This should force pcmanfm to create icons for all the directories in $HOME
3.  Make backups of anything you care about under your $HOME that appear as icons.
4.  Delete one of these icons.
5.  Watch the home directory and its contents disappear forever.

It's lots of fun.  You should try it sometime.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Samuel Verschelde 2014-01-10 21:40:18 CET

Keywords: (none) => Triaged, UPSTREAM
CC: (none) => stormi
Assignee: bugsquad => oliver.bgr
Source RPM: (none) => lxde-common

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:06:54 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Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates.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.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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