re file folders pointing to desktop icons which one

[Jonas Norlander]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Ray Burke <rayburke30 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone help 24/3/09.....
> I have a install of dual boot win xp pro sp3/
> Kubuntu 8.04 with kde 3.
> I have a problem with the desktop icons within K-
> I thought that the icons that show on the desktop
> are the ones that are in the folder file
> /home/rayburke/Desktop but the ones on my desktop are
> from the folder file /home/rayburke/ so why would they
> point to this file and not to the /home/rayburke/Desktop/.
> And within system settings under about me/paths is shows the folder
> file attached to the Desktop as /home/rayburke/, and it should be
> /home/rayburke/Desktop and if I change back to the previous what affect
> does it have as when I click this change, it started to reload with 100's
> of files within the /home/rayburke/Desktop, which I thought strange and stop
> it, but it messed up these folder files,

If you have 100+ files in/on your Desktop folder then it is as it
should. In what way did it get messed up?
You also have settings for you folders in the config file
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs i'm not sure if its used in Kubuntu 8.04 but
i think it is.
Mine looks like this:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Skrivbord"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Download"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Mallar"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Publikt"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Dokument"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musik"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Bilder"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Video"

I would change the path in System Settings and
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs so it reflect each other.

/ Jonas