16.04 icons

[Keith Sayers]

In 12.04 if I right click on an icon and select icon settings I get five options ; General, Permissions, Application, Information, Preview
In 16.04 I am getting only Keyboard Shortcuts - how can I get the other five, please?

[GreyGeek]

In 12.04 if I right click on an icon and select icon settings I get five options ; General, Permissions, Application, Information, Preview
In 16.04 I am getting only Keyboard Shortcuts - how can I get the other five, please?

In what context? The desktop? Dophin? KMail? System Settings?

[claydoh]

As in 12.04, 16.04 uses by default a "Desktop" layout where everything on the desktop is a widget, including "icons" (which are really application launcher widgets).
Hovering over the icon should bring up a small side panel with a wrench or settings button, which should bring up the full set of options.


Scratch that. Seems 16.04 era desktop icons do not work as they used to. Plasma 5.10 (Neon User and Kubuntu 17.10, or 17.04+ppa) have these options added back.
To get the widget's config options sidebar to appear, you need to left click and hold for a moment. But there will be no options under the config button other that what you see by the right-click

As in 12.04, one can switch to a more traditional layout by right-clicking on the desktop somewhere, and looking for the "configure Desktop" section and changing the Layout settings, which will allow actual files and folders, etc, as well as full right-click options, if that helps

[Keith Sayers]

> In what context? The desktop? Dophin? KMail? System Settings?

Sorry - on the desktop

[Keith Sayers]

> As in 12.04, one can switch to a more traditional layout by right-clicking on the desktop somewhere, and looking for the "configure Desktop" section and changing the Layout settings, which > will allow actual files and folders, etc, as well as full right-click options, if that helps

Thanks for that but I get a different result (am wondering if I have got a maverick version :-( ). The nearest to configure Desktop that I get is Desktop Settings which gives me three options : Wallpaper - Mouse Actions - Tweaks. Clicking on that last offered two further options - 'Show the desktop toolbar' and 'Press and hold widgets to move them and reveal their handles'. Both had a square alongside containing a blue box which I took to mean they were activated. As an experiment I clicked on the widgets option, which removed the blue box, returned to the desktop, right clicked on a widget and was then offered three options : Resize - Rotate - Icon Settings. That last just gave me the shortcut drop down I had already found.

Stumped, I thought there was nothing to be lost by going back and uncolouring the 'Show the desktop toolbar' - but so far as I could see that achieved nothing.

Sorry ! I seem to be a difficult case :-( but if you could suggest any other lines to try I would be appreciative.

[claydoh]

right-click -- Desktop Settings -- Wallpaper --Layout --select "Folder View"
This "classic" layout has become the default in the latest Plasma desktop version, actually.


As an aside I should be moving to your general area near the ACT, hopefully within a year (hoping for less)
I liked Canberra, at least the bits I got to see.

[Keith Sayers]

right-click -- Desktop Settings -- Wallpaper --Layout --select "Folder View"
This "classic" layout has become the default in the latest Plasma desktop version, actually.

Well that got me somewhere further forward - thank you! But there were a few strange things on the way.

I had to have widgets unlocked to get to that folder view but when I did it automagically created two duplicate widgets at the top left of the screen - the two internet connections I now have and for which I already had widgets in my extant block. A right click on either of those new ones gave me the options - General - Permissions - Application - and the General gave me the options to change name and icon, two of the things I wished to do. General also gave me a File Type Option. I had a look at that but decided to not fiddle.

Then back to my cluster of extant widgets a right click on any of which now yielded a drop down list the second entry on which was Folder View Options. Hovering over that displayed a further list the last entry on which was Folder View Settings and that in turn produced a subscreen - Wallpaper - Mouse Actions - Location - Icons - Filter - Tweaks. The Icons therein gave me - Arrangement - Sorting - Appearance (small to large and text lines) - Features (tooltips, selection marker, folder view popups) but no apparent means of changing name or icon.

More out of curiosity than anything I now went back down to the K symbol, clicked for the jump up list and from that again dragged the Firefox entry to the desktop. That created a third widget adjacent to the two at the top left and a right click on that led via Properties to the same drop down - General - Permissions - Application - that I had had from the first two, so with that also I could now change name and icon.

It seems that I now have my solution. Delete those widgets that I dragged onto the desktop before selecting Folder View, do a re-drag on to desktop from the jump up list above the K symbol, make any amendments thereto that I wish and then drag each to a desired position on the desktop.

Phew ! But thank you for all the help. :-)

As an aside I should be moving to your general area near the ACT, hopefully within a year (hoping for less)
I liked Canberra, at least the bits I got to see.

Most pleased to be helpful if I can ...