yeah, I noticed this too.
anyone cares?
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:31:52AM +0100, Andreas Schweitzer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I did something wrong, so
>this will be a simple post to ports.
>
>The following happened on a 3.9 and a 4.0 system.
>
>I installed kdebase and I can start and use KDE just fine.
>Excpet when I want to create a new shortcut on the desktop
>to e.g. launch a program (let's say firefox). The whizard
>guides me through but fails to correctly save the new
>desktop icon because of incorrect permissions.
>
>And indeed, the new ~/Desktop/firefox.desktop file has
>no write permission. Comparing to the permissions in
>$PREFIX/share/templates/.source/ it seems the new item
>gets copied with all the permissions (including timestamp)
>from there.
>
>So, unless I did something wrong, the fix would be to either
>have the files in $PREFIX/share/templates/.source/ user writable
>or to tell the function in KDE which is responsible for the
>copying to fix the permissions.
>
>The user I tried this with is in the wheel group and I did not
>change any umask settings.
>
>I just downloaded a kdebase snapshot, and at least the permissions
>are still the same. Also, I did not spot any patch in
>http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/kde/base3/patches/
>which could have fixed the copying behaviour.
>
>However, it seems odd that I couldn't find anything related
>to that in the mailing list archives or on google.
>
>Cheers,
>Andreas
>
