[CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 26 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote:
> On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it
> appears on the desktop as an icon.  But on my new CentOS 6
> KDE, this does not work.  

The reason is that Desktop is quite simply a directory - remember how it fits 
into the file system tree.  KDE 3.x made a special case of that directory, 
making everything in it visible on your workspace.  The default in KDE 4.x is 
not so.

> How can I make it work?

Two things you can do, depending on how you like to work.

a)  Right-click on an open space on your desktop.  You will see that it is set 
to Type: Desktop.  This is intended to stay a clean, empty desktop, apart from 
any widgets that you choose to add.  If you change the type to Folderview it 
will in fact show the contents of ~/Desktop - looking exactly like your old 
view.

b) If you like a clean desktop, but miss the easy access to shortcuts, etc., 
you can add a Folderview widget.  Initially it is rather big and points to ~/
  If you hover over a folderview you will see a 'handle' or 'toolbox' appear.  
The top icon allows you to resize it - you can also resize the icons within it 
by mouse-scrolling.  The second icon is for rotation - most people don't use 
that.  The next icon opens the Settings menu - and there you can change the 
directory that the folderview points to - if you use remote directories that 
is very useful.

You will find many changes explained in UserBase, but I'd recommend that you 
start with http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma - and the other section I'd really 
recommend that you read early is the Dolphin pages, particularly 
http://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management

HTH

Anne
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