Is there ANY way to remove (or edit) the giant "shortcut/link" arrow that gets shown on all icons placed on the desktop, when desktop is
configured to show the /home/$user/Desktop folder? All DuckDuckGo searches come up with how-to's on removing shortcut arrows from Windows desktop icons.

GEE it's now 197 days after this was asked and no one could be bothered to give what i'm sure is a easy answer. can someone please answer this. thanks

Hi, I have the same annoyance with Plasma 5.20.5 on Debian and would like to find a method to remove those horrible arrows

Well GEE, it's a lot more than x days. It's a (symbolic)shortcut, so it'll have the arrow. If you look it up, there's been countless posts on this matter all over the place. Imo, the easiest way not to have that arrow or Italic font, is simply to put the shortcut there as an application. For example, a certain directory would be dolphin /path/to/directory. And so on. The only downside is, that when it's a directory shortcut, you will not have the folder view popup.
Is there another method? Probably. But it would require a whole lot of editing root files.

dfrandin wrote:Is there ANY way to remove (or edit) the giant "shortcut/link" arrow that gets shown on all icons placed on the desktop, when desktop is
configured to show the /home/$user/Desktop folder? All DuckDuckGo searches come up with how-to's on removing shortcut arrows from Windows desktop icons.

Gee then you guys wonder why we the end users go any place but her for help. Regardless of the claim in the post above this one I knowq there has to be away to remove those arrows. Would be wonderful if at least one dev would actually weigh in on this.

locutusofborg wrote:... Would be wonderful if at least one dev would actually weigh in on this.

For that you need to talk to the devs where the devs are, e.g. make a bug report on https://bugs.kde.org and/or contact the developers on #plasma on Matrix/IRC or via the plasma mailing list.

Mamarok wrote:

locutusofborg wrote:... Would be wonderful if at least one dev would actually weigh in on this.

For that you need to talk to the devs where the devs are, e.g. make a bug report on https://bugs.kde.org and/or contact the developers on #plasma on Matrix/IRC or via the plasma mailing list.

The devs should be monitoring the forums. All this is is a matter of knowing what the image is called and replacing it per icon theme with a simple translucent image. Should not have to put in a feature request to get the information.