https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424419
Bug ID: 424419
Summary: Can't move desktop icon where I want
Product: kde
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: unassigned-b...@kde.org
Reporter: php4...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Most desktop environments (e.g. Gnome, Unity, Cinnamon) let you chose whether
icons should automatically arrange themselves and remain that way, or if you
are allowed to move them around wherever you want and they remain where you
place them.
Kde desktop seems to only have the first mode of operation, and there's no
setting, at least not an easily discoverable one, to allow you to change the
behavior
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click and drag an icon on the desktop
2. move it to some arbitrary place in the middle of the desktop far away from
existing icons
OBSERVED RESULT
the icon goes back to its original position. Actually, that is if I could start
dragging it in the first place. Sometimes I can't, and the mouse cursor will
just move without dragging the icon at all. But when it does seem to be
dragging the icon, it goes back to its place when I release.
I went to Desktop Settings -> Icons and I see a setting called "lock in place"
(a name that isn't self-explanatory enough to start with). I tried changing
that, but whether I have it checked or not, the behavior doesn't change. I
can't in any way arrange my icons arbitrarily.
EXPECTED RESULT
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
Linux/KDE Plasma:
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:
KDE Frameworks Version:
Qt Version:
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