On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:02 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:40, Norman Carver wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:52, Norman Carver wrote: > > > > Thanks, but 9.1 does not work the same as 9.0. In particular, you > > > > cannot rename or change these icons (or even delete them). > > > > > > Go into /home/you/Desktop.... You'll find the files that Gen the icons > > > there. > > > > I have it disabled now, but that was the first place I looked, and I > > didn't see the icon files there. What are they called? > > Discover custom services.desktop Mandrake Expert.desktop Trash/ > Home.desktop Mandrake Store.desktop > Welcome.desktop > MandrakeClub.desktop Removable media/ > > > is the list... vi (or emacs kate etc) the file... it covers all the > info on how KDE puts the icon on your desktop. If you want to prove > this to your self cd into the directory, mv one of the files up one > level .... the icon disapears. mv it back... the icon will re-appear.
I know how KDE generally handles desktop icons. Again, though, you appear to be talking about 9.0 rather than 9.1. What you describe as the default desktop icons here is what you got with 9.0. In particular, 9.1 does *not* have the Removable media icon and does not deal with the removable drives via the /usr/bin/kdesktop-links script as 9.0 did. So, knowing how 9.0 dealt with them is of little/no help to 9.1. That was why I was asking! Marc gave the correct answer: the desktop icons for removable drives (and harddrives) can be made to appear automatically by KDE 3.1, and are by default set to appear in MDK 9.1. Despite the fact that device icons appear on the desktop, they are not produced by files in your Desktop directory. The big problem I have with this approach is that you have no control over the icons or the text that KDE will use. So I disabled the automatic icons and created my own. Norm
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