I’ve got desktop folder view set to layout = “folder view” and location = “show the desktop folder”.
If I attempt to click open a folder (i.e. directory), Gwenview (instead of Dolphin) opens and displays icons for the contents on the folder/directory. If I right-click and select to open the directory with Dolphin, it works and opens in Dolphin, but despite I tell it to set the system to use Dolphin, that system setting does not stick.
and also
If I attempt to click open a simple text file in the Desktop directory, LibreOffice Writer (instead of Kwrite) opens opens and displays the text. If I right-click and select to open the text file with Kwrite, it works and opens in Kwrite, but despite I tell it to set the system to use Kwrite, that system setting does not stick.
So just to see what happens I uninstalled Gwenview and LibreOffice. Than when I attempt to open a directory in the Desktop directory or a text file in the Desktop directory, I get a message that I am running KDE su and I should enter the root password. However I have checked and the ownership of contents is mine and the permissions are normal e.g. here is an example of ls -l for Desktop:
john@Tumbleweed421:~> cd ~/Desktop
john@Tumbleweed421:~/Desktop> ls -l
total 100
-rw-rw-rw- 1 john users 284 Nov 11 19:48 apache
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john users 891 Sep 15 2012 arrow.xcf
-rw-rw-rw- 1 john users 88 Jan 7 21:19 EZTV
drwxr-xr-x 2 john users 4096 Nov 2 21:03 FP.USA
-rwxrwxrwx 1 john users 2145 Nov 16 12:29 FStudy60.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 john users 5 Jan 24 21:47 index.php.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 4096 Jan 31 10:50 manuals
Any suggestions? I’m almost at the point of re-installing.
[Furthermore a trash folder on the Desktop occupies about 1/20th of the screen real estate and I can’t shift it. But bad widgets are another matter.]
The folderview widget just uses the standard KDE means to open files.
So this is a general KDE (KF5) problem.
A faulty patch has been added to kservice unfortunately. It has been removed again a few days ago, but that change is not in Tumbleweed yet.
Judging from other threads it seems to only affect the “Default Applications” configuration module though, you should still be able to change the default application for folders in “File Associations” (mimetype “inode/directory”).
For moving/resizing plasmoids, you need to click on it and hold the mouse button for a few seconds.
You can revert to the old behavior (the handles appearing as soon as you move the mouse over a plasmoid) in the (Desktop or Folderview) settings that you can reach via right-clicking on the desktop or via the desktop’s toolbox icon. It’s the second option in “Tweaks”.
Well, apparently kservice contained a broken patch. But this should be removed in TW since two days again.
But the glib2 fix is not in Tumbleweed yet, it still overrides all file associations with GNOME’s defaults (if you don’t have GNOME installed, that could probably also cause gwenview getting the default application for folders).
Does it help if you rename /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list to gnome-mimeapps.list?
- Follow the freedesktop conventions for the mime handler
associations. The created link is gnome specific, so make it
specific (gnome-mimeapps.list). This prevents association
problems in Plasma 5 (boo#966739)
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html
The url-based trashcan folder no longer works for me. And the widget trashcan doesn’t work still. Both now give the response “malformed url trash:/”.
Can you navigate to “trash:/” in dolphin or the file open/save/dialog?
Try to delete/rename the folder ~/.local/share/Trash/, maybe the info files are broken somehow.
