Bug 16982

Summary: No desktop shortcuts on Plasma desktop
Product: Mageia Reporter: Bit Twister <bittwister2>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: luke.nukem.jones
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Bit Twister 2015-10-19 14:03:04 CEST 
Description of problem:

None of my $ ls -1 ~/Desktop/*.desktop | wc -l
43
shortcuts show up on my Plasma desktop

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot default runlevel 3
2. login 
3. startx startkde




Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
David Walser 2015-10-19 15:12:51 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 1 Luke Jones 2015-11-26 19:57:13 CET 
This is standard across distros using Plasma. You need to add a folder display widget to the desktop.

See here: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma#Folder_Views

To change the default;
Right click on desktop -> Desktop Settings -> Layout -> from Desktop to Folder View -> OK

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => luke.nukem.jones
Resolution: (none) => FIXED