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As has been discussed on the mailing lists, we have adopted for new upstream default (plasma 5.10) of having the default desktop containment as a folderview in plasma 5.9. While this has resulted in our iso live session looking very much nicer, there are a few niggling issues with the desktop when installed to a HD/real system. # There are now a Home and Wastebin icons on the desktop by default. # The right click on the Wastebin icon does not give an 'empty trash' option when the Wastebin contains items, as you usually expect on most desktops # The icons overlap and slightly interfere with the desktop toolbox placed top left. For (1): In plasma 4 kubuntu, these generated by kio_desktop had been 'not installed' in packaging to keep a 'tidy' empty desktop. We could do the same with the equivalents that are now found in the plasma-workspace package. This would retain continuity with previous kubuntu plasma 5 releases, leaving an empty desktop that the user is free to customise as they see fit. At present the Home icon and partially non-funtional wastebin do not offer much benefit to a user. For (2) should we choose to reatain those icons, there is an upstream and maybe backportable patch to enable the emprt trash option. See: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/?id=30b875939abf3e465030680b5e97e80490dfb12d Assuming that is a clean apply to 5.9.x it might be nice to have anyway, but possibly gains importance should we retain those desktop icons. For issue (3) this was reported as a bug by Haruld 2-3 years ago, and has not been addressed in all that time. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337060 While plasma were defaulting to a desktop containment (and hence empty) default I guess it's importance was not high. Several options are discussed in that bug, but the quickest and easiest for kubuntu (one line to patch) would to move the toolbox to the top right. Other solutions would be removing the icons completely as discussed above, or I would imagine more extensive backporting of upstream code should KDE/plasma decide to fix this in 5.10.

As has been discussed on the mailing lists, we have adopted for new upstream default (plasma 5.10) of having the default desktop containment as a folderview in plasma 5.9. While this has resulted in our iso live session looking very much nicer, there are a few niggling issues with the desktop when installed to a HD/real system. # There are now a Home and Wastebin icons on the desktop by default. # The right click on the Wastebin icon does not give an 'empty trash' option when the Wastebin contains items, as you usually expect on most desktops # The icons overlap and slightly interfere with the desktop toolbox placed top left. **For issue (1):** In plasma 4 kubuntu, these generated by kio_desktop had been 'not installed' in packaging to keep a 'tidy' empty desktop. We could do the same with the equivalents that are now found in the plasma-workspace package. This would retain continuity with previous kubuntu plasma 5 releases, leaving an empty desktop that the user is free to customise as they see fit. At present the Home icon and partially non-functional wastebin do not offer much benefit to a user. **For issue (2):** should we choose to retain those icons, there is an upstream and maybe backportable patch to enable the empty trash option. See: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/?id=30b875939abf3e465030680b5e97e80490dfb12d Assuming that is a clean apply to 5.9.x it might be nice to have anyway, but possibly gains importance should we retain those desktop icons. **For issue (3):** This was reported as a bug by Haruld 2-3 years ago, and has not been addressed in all that time. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337060 While plasma were defaulting to a desktop containment (and hence empty) default I guess it's importance was not high. Several options are discussed in that bug, but the quickest and easiest for kubuntu (one line to patch) would to move the toolbox to the top right. Other solutions would be removing the icons completely as discussed above, or I would imagine more extensive backporting of upstream code should KDE/plasma decide to fix this in 5.10.

As has been discussed on the mailing lists, we have adopted for new upstream default (plasma 5.10) of having the default desktop containment as a folderview in plasma 5.9. While this has resulted in our iso live session looking very much nicer, there are a few niggling issues with the desktop when installed to a HD/real system. # There are now a Home and Wastebin icons on the desktop by default. # The right click on the Wastebin icon does not give an 'empty trash' option when the Wastebin contains items, as you usually expect on most desktops # The icons overlap and slightly interfere with the desktop toolbox placed top left. For**For issue (1): ** In plasma 4 kubuntu, these generated by kio_desktop had been 'not installed' in packaging to keep a 'tidy' empty desktop. We could do the same with the equivalents that are now found in the plasma-workspace package. This would retain continuity with previous kubuntu plasma 5 releases, leaving an empty desktop that the user is free to customise as they see fit. At present the Home icon and partially non-functional wastebin do not offer much benefit to a user. **For issue (2):** For (2) should we choose to reatain those icons, there is an upstream and maybe backportable patch to enable the emprtempty trash option. See: https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/?id=30b875939abf3e465030680b5e97e80490dfb12d Assuming that is a clean apply to 5.9.x it might be nice to have anyway, but possibly gains importance should we retain those desktop icons. **For issue (3) this:** This was reported as a bug by Haruld 2-3 years ago, and has not been addressed in all that time. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337060 While plasma were defaulting to a desktop containment (and hence empty) default I guess it's importance was not high. Several options are discussed in that bug, but the quickest and easiest for kubuntu (one line to patch) would to move the toolbox to the top right. Other solutions would be removing the icons completely as discussed above, or I would imagine more extensive backporting of upstream code should KDE/plasma decide to fix this in 5.10.