Clean install of current TDE. Desktop is festooned with all manner of default icons. Trying to delete them, but many -- "My Computer" (gag), "Trash", "My Network Places" (double gag), "My Documents" (ditto), "Web Browser", and "Printers" are all owned by root and cannot be removed. I made a directory in ~/ called "default desktop crap" and moved the movable ones there.
I run a desktop that is entirely free of icons. How do I get rid of these? I don't necessarily want them deleted forever, just put someplace where they don't make my desktop look as if birds just flew over. I'm sure they're a great help for those migrating from Windows 3.0.
Thanks.
Btw, the new icons in general are excellent.
On 2025-08-23 19:57:13 dep via tde-users wrote:
Clean install of current TDE. Desktop is festooned with all manner of default icons. Trying to delete them, but many -- "My Computer" (gag), "Trash", "My Network Places" (double gag), "My Documents" (ditto), "Web Browser", and "Printers" are all owned by root and cannot be removed. I made a directory in ~/ called "default desktop crap" and moved the movable ones there.
I run a desktop that is entirely free of icons. How do I get rid of these? I don't necessarily want them deleted forever, just put someplace where they don't make my desktop look as if birds just flew over. I'm sure they're a great help for those migrating from Windows 3.0.
Thanks.
Btw, the new icons in general are excellent.
In Control Center => Desktop => Behavior you can uncheck Show icons on desktop; I think that should fix you up.
Leslie
said J Leslie Turriff via tde-users:
| In Control Center => Desktop => Behavior you can uncheck Show icons on | desktop; I think that should fix you up.
Thanks very much. Is this new? I remember last time it being far more complicated.
Another question. The Proton apps -- mail, vpn, etc., have icons. These work everywhere *except* TDE, where they are invisible. They are .svn. Any idea how I can make 'em work?
On 2025-08-23 21:05:12 dep via tde-users wrote:
said J Leslie Turriff via tde-users: | In Control Center => Desktop => Behavior you can uncheck Show icons on | desktop; I think that should fix you up.
Thanks very much. Is this new? I remember last time it being far more complicated.
No, it's been there as far back as I can remember, in the KDE3 days.
Another question. The Proton apps -- mail, vpn, etc., have icons. These work everywhere *except* TDE, where they are invisible. They are .svn. Any idea how I can make 'em work?
Sorry, I have no knowledge of these.
Leslie
On Sunday 24 August 2025 22:42:13 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
Another question. The Proton apps -- mail, vpn, etc., have icons. These work everywhere *except* TDE, where they are invisible. They are .svn. Any idea how I can make 'em work?
Are you sure it's .svn? I can't find a graphic format named svn.
On 2025-08-24 15:52:29 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 24 August 2025 22:42:13 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
Another question. The Proton apps -- mail, vpn, etc., have icons. These work everywhere *except* TDE, where they are invisible. They are .svn. Any idea how I can make 'em work?
Are you sure it's .svn? I can't find a graphic format named svn.
I'm pretty sure .svg is what was intended. :-)
Leslie
said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users:
| Are you sure it's .svn? I can't find a graphic format named svn.
Sorry, it is indeed .svg. but apparently not just any .svg. They are in /usr/local/share/pixmaps and, as an example I'll use protonmail. It's protonmail.png. But if I open it in the GIMP, I get a popup that says "Load SVG image" which I can do. The same phenomenon exists across the Proton apps. They work uneventfully as icons in other desktops, but in TDE they don't, producing either a white blob or the gear icon, even when installed by hand.
On Sunday 24 August 2025 23:44:25 dep via tde-users wrote:
Sorry, it is indeed .svg. but apparently not just any .svg.
I went here: https://proton.me/media/kit, and downloaded a set of icons in *.png and *.svg. I don't know if they are the same as yours.
Gimp opens both the png and the svg version, which I can convert in an xpm. TDE can actually use all of these (pnd, svg and xpm) as icons.
So I don't know why the files you get in /usr/local/share/pixmaps are different.
Thierry
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