Icons on the desktop are missing

[probonopd]

I am missing the icons on the desktop for my storage devices.

[probonopd]

I left the default settings untouched here:

[rodlie]

Do not run the start-draco command from a WM.

The desktop is running, so icons should be managed. But I don't think you have a proper icon installation, or something is missing. Do you have qt5ct installed?

[probonopd]

When I install the qt5ct package, then I get a "Qt Settings" icon on the desktop. But no hard disks, trash, etc.

Do not run the start-draco command from a WM.

So that seems to be my root issue then; hence closing here. Thanks!

[probonopd]

Or does it need qtfm for that to work?

[rodlie]

no, qtfm is not an requirement.

[probonopd]

This is caused by Draco looking for /run/media which does not exist on Ubuntu, where this is in /media.

Workaround:

sudo ln -s /media /run/

Log out, log in again.

[probonopd]

However, only storage devices that are already mounted are shown. Which means that just attaching a USB storage device does not make it show up on the desktop, as it (imho) should (and does do on e.g., the Mac and Xfce).

Probably https://github.com/rodlie/draco/tree/master/src/storage has most if not all of the code to make devices appear once they are plugged in, not only after they have been mounted.

[rodlie]

Which means that just attaching a USB storage device does not make it show up on the desktop

This is by design.

[probonopd]

https://github.com/rodlie/draco/search?q=%2Frun%2Fmedia&unscoped_q=%2Frun%2Fmedia has /media and /run/media mentioned in some places but apparently not here:

draco/src/desktop/LDesktop.cpp

Line 538 in 02767fa

QDir userMedia(QString("/run/media/%1").arg(QDir::homePath().split("/").takeLast()));

I will see if changing it here fixes this.

[probonopd]

Closing here since the immediate bug is fixed; will open a separate (discussion) one for

Which means that just attaching a USB storage device does not make it show up on the desktop

This is by design.