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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Multiple desktop icons - only one desktop file
From:       "Steven P. Ulrick" <ulricksteven () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2005-04-27 12:41:32
Message-ID: 200504270741.32609.ulricksteven () hotmail ! com
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Hello, Everyone
Has anyone seen anything like this:
Here is a screenshot of my desktop the way it looks before this issue happens:
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-1.jpg

1. I dragged my "Home" icon from the task bar (that may be the wrong term) 
onto the desktop and I clicked "Copy"  As you can see in the following 
screenshot, there is only one additional icon, and it is named "Home"  This 
is as expected.
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-2.jpg

2. I renamed it to reflect a "View Profile" that I had created.  You will 
notice in the following screenshot that the "Home" icon is now named 
"KDE-CVS"  But, you will further notice, that there are now TWO icons with 
that name on the desktop.  I only put one of them there, and there is only 
one *.desktop file in my ~/Desktop directory.  I did Nothing to create this 
second "KDE-CVS" icon except to hit the enter key on my keyboard after I 
renamed the icon.
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-3.jpg

3. I right clicked, then went to "Properties | Application" to put the name of 
my "View Profile" in the place of the default one that is associated with my 
"Home" icon.  When I clicked "OK",  two more Identical icons appeared, for a 
grand total of Four.  Again, only one  *.desktop file in my ~/Desktop 
directory.
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-4.jpg


4. After I made my change and clicked "OK", three more Identical icons 
appeared on my desktop, in addition to the one that I had just edited to 
reflect my custom "View Profile"  There are now Six identical icons, but still 
only one *.desktop file. 
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-5.jpg

5. Then, I just went through the steps that I went through to change the 
command associated with the desktop file (I right clicked on only one of the 
Six icons), but I changed nothing.  When I clicked "OK", two more icons 
appeared for a grand total of eight.
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-6.jpg

The reason that I tried that step again was because before I started taking 
screenshots so I could report this, I did what I described in step 5, but 
when I clicked OK, immediately, EVERY icon on my desktop received a double!  
I wish I could get a screenshot of that again, but I have not been able to.

6. Then I  right clicked on One of the eight "KDE-CVS" icons, and chose to 
move it to the trash.  When I clicked OK, the screen goes black, (I would 
assume that the desktop crashed) and then is almost immediately redrawn with 
all eight "KDE-CVS" icons now gone.  Remember, I put One on the desktop, 
ended up with Eight, and when I deleted one of the eight icons, the screen 
goes black, and comes right back up with none of the "KDE-CVS" icons on it.
http://www.afolkey2.net/KDE_CVS-HEAD_IconIssue-7.jpg

Because of the new test built into "configure" in KDE from CVS-HEAD, I did a 
completely fresh download of all 19 modules that I keep updated and I 
recompiled it using "gcc-3.4.3-22.fc3"  So far I have only gotten kdelibs and 
kdebase compiled and installed.  (The version I HAD been compiling with was 
"gcc4-4.0.0-0.41.fc3"  I have had no problems at all compiling KDE with that 
version.)  This issue started Before I started recompiling my fresh download 
of KDE from CVS-HEAD with the older version of gcc.

I am running Fedora Core 3, all official updates installed.  My QT is the 
latest stable version from TrollTech, installed in a different path than the 
version that ships with FC3.  The same is true of my KDE from CVS-HEAD.  It 
is installed on a different path than the FC3 version.  Also, I compile and 
install using "unsermake"

If you have any questions for my, feel free to let me know.  I am here to 
help :)

Steven P. Ulrick

P.S.: Could this be related to a similar issue that I had been having (it 
started at the same time) in Konqueror, where I would get multiple icons for 
one directory?  In that case, though, if I clicked on the "+" on one of the 
"multiple" directories to expand it, I just got a "-"  There was nothing in 
it.  If that happens again, I will get screenshots.

 
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