Bug 158497

Greetings.

Recently created a new user in OpenSUSE 10.1 Beta 6, and due to the absence of the "Home" icon on the default desktop, created a "Home" icon there by dragging one out of Kicker task bar.

Unfortunately, dropping any files on that new "Home" icon (the one on the desktop, not on Kicker tool bar) opens one more instance of Konqueror.

On Windows, that action "copies/moves" files to the Home (My Documents). On Mac, dropping files onto a link to a Home folder "copies/moves" the files.

Right now "Home" icon on the Kicker is a "application" type of a shortcut and points to "kfmclient". Since that icons is the one usually used for making shortcuts on the desktop (i speak here based on observed Windows experience), what are the chances of making the "Home" icon on the Kicker task bar a "URL" type, instead of the "application" type?

Alternatively, why not put the "Home" icon back on the desktop. I asked KDE people about this and they replied:

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the official KDE Home.desktop file is a URL with the value of $HOME. when you 
drag onto it, it pops up the "Copy/Move/Link/Cancel" menu as one would 
expect. 
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Since I can't drag and drop files on the "My Computer" desktop icon, or "Home" icon on the Kicker, I think putting "Home" back on desktop would make a lot of sense.  Alternatively, making "Home" icon on the kicker "drag-n-drop"-able would also suffice.

In the interest of all new users, I hope ppl who package KDE at Suse will reconsider the removal of "Home" icon from the desktop.

Thank you for your consideration.