Bug 18764

Summary:	Plasma desktop icons and placement are very difficult to deal with
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	William Kenney <wilcal.int>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	bequimao.de, bittwister2, lebarhon
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	plasma-desktop?	CVE:
Status comment:

Description William Kenney 2016-06-22 19:58:22 CEST

Description of problem:

This is more of a comment then anything else. Now that I have a
stable M6 x86_64 Plasma install on hardware ( nvidia ) I've had
some time to position my various launch icons on the desktop.
Simple things like Home, Firefox, Filezilla, Konsole, Kwrite.
I have found that Plasma is no where near as easy to deal with
then the previous KDE desktop is/was. Simply dragging an icon
from the menu and placing it somewhere on the desktop is easy
enough. But (re)sizing, renaming ( impossible to do ) and
positioning that icon is an exercise in frustration. Hopefully
as we move along with this things will get better. Or is this
a feature/function of Plasma?

Otherwise the install is quite stable and updating.

Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-22 21:14:45 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Source RPM: (none) => plasma-desktop?

Ulrich Beckmann 2016-06-23 21:52:46 CEST

CC: (none) => bequimao.de

Comment 1 Bit Twister 2016-06-24 00:26:21 CEST

I currently have 43 shortcuts on my desktop.
You might look at bug 17750 and bug 17749. I have found changing desktop fonts a method of getting closer to a mga5 lookalike.

CC: (none) => bittwister2

Comment 2 André DESMOTTES 2016-06-24 08:29:06 CEST

No problem here to resize an icon but I confirm renaming is impossible to do.

CC: (none) => lebarhon

Comment 3 Ulrich Beckmann 2016-06-24 10:52:46 CEST

You resize or move an icon by clicking with the left button of them mouse and hold the click for a moment. Then the familiar menu will appear.

You get the old behaviour by right clicking on the desktop -> Desktop Settings -> Tweaks and uncheck the button "Press and hold widgets ..."

I did not test it so far, but I read that renaming an icon is only possible in the "Folder View". You'll have to add the widget "Folder View" to your desktop.

Hope that helps,
Ulrich aka BequimÃ£o

Comment 4 André DESMOTTES 2016-06-24 11:55:24 CEST

In "Folder view" you can rename the icons of the files/folders that are in the actual folder (chosen in "Location") but you still can't rename the other icons/widgets you added eg from the menu.

Comment 5 William Kenney 2016-07-17 18:54:54 CEST

The latest iso's released on 07/15/16 this appears to no longer be a problem.
Setting this bug to resolved.

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