I was trying to change the icons on the desktop. I would right click on the icon, select properties, click in the icon box, find the icon I wanted, select it, and try to save it. When I do this I get a message that said I did not have sufficient access. I have a screen print but I can't figure out how to post it here.
Here is a list of part of my home directory down to the Desktop entry:
[vince@Vince ~]$ ls -la
total 3336
drwxr-xr-x. 109 vince vince 12288 Jan 2 21:25 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Jul 29 04:49 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 vince vince 4096 Jan 1 00:33 .abrt
-rw-r--r--. 1 vince root 124 Mar 11 2010 .acoundrc
-rw-r--r--. 1 vince root 124 Mar 11 2010 .acoundrc~
drwx------. 3 vince root 4096 May 15 2010 .adanaxis
drwx------. 5 vince vince 4096 Jun 21 2010 .adobe
drwxrwxr-x. 2 vince vince 4096 Feb 27 2010 .areca
drwxrwxr-x. 4 vince vince 4096 Dec 21 11:43 .audacity-data
drwxrwxr-x 2 vince vince 4096 Feb 11 2011 Avery
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vince vince 50889 Mar 17 2011 Barcelona air.pdf
-rw-------. 1 vince vince 14515 Jan 2 21:30 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--. 1 vince vince 18 Jun 23 2009 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. 1 vince vince 176 Jun 23 2009 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--. 1 vince vince 124 Jun 23 2009 .bashrc
drwxrwxr-x. 4 vince vince 4096 Feb 4 2011 .beer
drwxrwxr-x 4 vince vince 4096 Feb 4 2011 .beera
drwxrwxr-x. 4 vince vince 4096 Jul 7 2010 .beer-x86_64
drwxrwxr-x 6 vince vince 4096 Sep 12 13:30 .bibletime
drwxrwxr-x. 10 vince vince 4096 Sep 6 15:23 bin
drwx------ 2 vince vince 4096 Sep 14 23:12 .bl2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vince vince 571906 Jan 1 18:37 bootchart1.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vince vince 619282 Jan 1 22:18 bootchart.png
drwx------. 16 vince vince 4096 Jan 2 21:46 .cache
drwxr-xr-x. 2 vince vince 4096 Sep 17 2010 .cave9
drwxrwxr-x 9 vince vince 4096 Mar 4 2011 Charles
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vince vince 2689 Mar 4 2011 .charles.config
-rw-r----- 1 vince vince 215294 Dec 20 17:23 Church Vince.jpg
drwxr-xr-x. 36 vince vince 4096 Jan 2 21:25 .config
drwx------ 2 vince vince 4096 Feb 12 2011 .cups
drwx------. 3 vince vince 4096 Aug 17 2009 .dbus
drwxrwxrwx. 3 vince vince 4096 Jan 2 23:09 Desktop
-rw------- 1 vince root 185 Jan 2 11:19 .directory

Here is a listing of the Desktop directory
[vince@Vince Desktop]$ ls -la
total 216
drwxrwxrwx. 3 vince vince 4096 Jan 2 23:09 .
drwxr-xr-x. 109 vince vince 12288 Jan 2 21:25 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 396 Feb 4 2011 AdobeReader.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 357 Dec 10 13:42 Chrome Hank.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 803 Jan 1 14:44 Chrome Vince.desktop
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vince vince 234 Dec 23 10:14 Cooking Being served.txt
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vince vince 250 Jun 18 2010 Crocotile.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 vince root 174 Jan 1 22:46 .directory
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 182 Dec 28 2009 Drive C.desktop
-rw-rw-r--. 1 vince vince 182 Dec 25 2009 Drive C.desktop~
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 182 Dec 25 2009 Drive D.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 182 Dec 30 2009 Drive G.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 177 Feb 6 2010 Drive O.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vince vince 544 Aug 17 2009 fedora-yumex.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 276 Oct 21 22:04 Firefox 7 Vince.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 331 Jan 1 23:24 Firefox.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 425 Jan 2 23:09 Firefox Dward.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 260 Apr 12 2011 Firefox George-1.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 251 Jul 25 11:41 Firefox Vince 3 19.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 228 Nov 17 23:58 Firefox Whatever.desktop
-rw-rw-r--. 1 vince vince 708 Aug 17 2009 gdm~
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 199 Apr 28 2011 Gnomebaker.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vince vince 534 Jan 21 2011 gnome-nautilus-browser.desktop
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vince vince 673 Dec 10 13:17 google-chrome.desktop
-rwx--x--x. 1 vince vince 438 Jan 30 2010 Google-googleearth.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 255 Sep 2 19:44 Gourmet.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vince vince 59 Oct 22 21:28 GRNew.odb -> /home/vince/Documents/Gourmet Ranch/Search engine/GRNew.odb
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vince vince 159 Jun 2 2010 K3b.desktop
drwxr-xr-x. 2 vince vince 4096 Aug 18 2010 Kaser
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 24861 Oct 12 13:32 libreoffice3.4-base.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 184 May 28 2011 Linux Mail.desktop
-rwxrwxrwx 1 vince vince 384 Jan 2 23:02 Moneydance 2011.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vince vince 422 Apr 12 2011 mozilla-firefox (copy).desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vince vince 404 Sep 2 18:48 mozilla-firefox.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 238 Apr 17 2011 picasa-1.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vince vince 238 Jun 24 2010 picasa.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 7037 Jan 23 2010 pidgin.desktop
-rw------- 1 vince vince 16710 Sep 28 09:58 Recipe and Level.odt
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 177 Dec 31 2009 SATA1.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 vince vince 186 Jan 2 2010 skype.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vince vince 214 Jul 9 2010 VirtualBox.desktop
-rwxrwxr-x 1 vince vince 154 May 2 2011 Xsane.desktop

As you can see I own both the directory and the file. The permissions are 777. I was able to change the icon in FC14.

I even tried the same thing using
$ sudo dolphin
and got the same results.

The desktop files are text-type items that contain the info for that item. I opened the file using gedit and changed the icon keyword to what I wanted and saved the file. It worked. The icon is now what I want it to be. This is really weird.

Is this a Fedora bug or a KDE bug?

If you want/need the screenshot, please let me know how to upload it.

Thanks in advance.

Screenshots can be uploaded to sites like Imagebin, etc - then links posted here.

Can you please provide a screenshot of the error message?

Here is the screenshot (I hope).
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bw7LR6 ... Y3YjUxMDk2

If this doesn't work, please be more specific about where I should upload the screenshot. I tried to go to www.imagebin.com but it never loaded. Please post the full url. Thanks.

Does your system have any form of Kiosk restrictions in place? This is usually the case when you have a centrally managed KDE installation (corporate, school, etc) not on a personal, home installation.

This is my home computer. It is not centrally controlled and there are no restrictions. I have put my userid in all of the groups including root. If I edit the link file (a text type file that describes the link) using gedit, I can change it and save it with no problems.

It appears you are somehow causing the following code to trip:

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        // If default icon and no .directory file -> don't create one
        if ( !sIcon.isEmpty() || QFile::exists(path) )
        {
            KDesktopFile cfg(path);
            kDebug(250) << "sIcon = " << (sIcon);
            kDebug(250) << "str = " << (str);
            cfg.desktopGroup().writeEntry( "Icon", sIcon );
            cfg.sync();

            cfg.reparseConfiguration();
            if ( cfg.desktopGroup().readEntry("Icon") != sIcon ) {
                KMessageBox::sorry( 0, i18n("<qt>Could not save properties. You do not "
                                            "have sufficient access to write to <b>%1</b>.</qt>", path));
            }
        }

Could you please run "kdebugdialog" and enable debugging + all areas, then open Dolphin and browse to your Desktop folder and try to make the desired changes?

If it trips - please post the full console output from Dolphin here (using Pastebin).

I opened konsole, entered kdebugdialog, enabled Debug, Selected all, clicked Apply and then opener Dolphin. I went to the Desktop directory and tried to change the icon. I got the same failure but nothing in Konsole. Is that where the debugging output should have been displayed? If not there, then where?

Also, have you tried this on your system? If not, please try and see if it works. If it has worked, please post your distribution. I can't believe that I am the only one having this problem. This piece is a request to all who read this. Please try changing one of the icons of something in your Desktop directory and post whether it works or fails. Please post your results.

I opened the Desktop entry with gedit. Here is whats there:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=/opt/Moneydance/moneydance
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon[en_US]=/home/vince/moneydance/moneydance_icon32.png
Icon=01BA_Readme
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=Moneydance 2011
Name=Moneydance 2011
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
Version=1.0
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

I have changed this file to reflect the proper icon.

On my system it worked fine. Which distribution do you use? I believe some distributions have sabotaged debug output to ensure it always remains off.

I just upgraded to Fedora FC16. I don't know if this is a Fedora problem or KDE. I have not posted this in the forum there. Should I? Or maybe the Linux Forums? I don't want to get people mad at me for multiple postings.

I take it back. I have posted it on the Fedora forums but have not had any replies from there.

How can I tell if kdebugdialog is working? What can I do to cause something to be captured?

If you have all debug areas enabled, then starting any application - or running "kbuildsycoca4" should cause significant quantities of output to be made to the console.

I was able to test and got output. I then retried my problem and got a lot of output. Here is the Pastebin link - h t t p:/ /pastebin.com/LFyrxKC1 please remove the spaces in http as I can't post links yet.

While trying to see if kdebugdialog was working, I was looking at the kdebugdialog --fullmode and changed a few items at random to send the output to a file. I looked at the file and there was stuff there. Here is a link to that file h t t p ://pastebin.com/cU7D6Gi1 (please remove the spaces in http)

Can you try unsetting your language? For reasons I do not know, en_US appears to be being set as the language key - which should not be the case (as that is the default).