Where is the Desktop?
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In /home/name I have no "Desktop". I have "Documents", "Downloads", "Music", "Pictures" and "Video".
I would like to sort icons on my Desktop. Either by using a new app to create desktop folders or by typing "mkdir". There are too many icons on this desktop.
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@Alain
Oh, there's no desktop.
Ubuntu Touch isn't classic Linux but an OS designed for phones.
The interface is Lomiri, and the system can't be modified.
The only alternative is Lancher Modular, but I don't think that's exactly what you're looking for. -
I'm looking for a way to group icons into folders. I've got games, utilities, etc. all mixed up.
Even if there is no folder called "Desktop", there's got to be a list somewhere of icons to display, along with links to their logo, I hope you see what I mean. A list of installed apps?
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Unfortunately, this is not yet possible. Something like this was developed by Canonical but it wasn't finished so it was removed. So far now one has implemented it yet although there's a bounty for it now.
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Maybe I should try, then :). Did a bit of coding way back, mostly javascript, perl and a bit of C++. How hard can it be?
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@Alain said in Where is the Desktop?:
there's got to be a list somewhere
I think that's under ~/.local/share/applications (some of the .desktop files can be prefixed by waydroid and are not shown by the UT launcher, it must be special cased to be shown in the waydroid container only)
It may be the directory defined by freedesktop standard actually.
Not sure if you can just add to it manually and expect the added app to be recognized.
I think not, because I have added a few apps with Libertine (the X-Window container) and they were seen by the launcher only after a restart of the phone, so it's very likely that the launcher is not checking this directory dynamically, something that is possible theoretically but no, it don't happen like that. -
Hum, and creating folders there to move the apps into somehow sounds unlikely to do what I would like... But I'll give it a try next time, you never know.
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@Alain said in Where is the Desktop?:
I'm looking for a way to group icons into folders. I've got games, utilities, etc. all mixed up.
Even if there is no folder called "Desktop", there's got to be a list somewhere of icons to display, along with links to their logo, I hope you see what I mean. A list of installed apps?
A feature request already exists:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri/-/issues/127
As said in that ticket: "Note that this issue is not a beginners' issue..."And also a corresponding bounty (2000€) :
https://os-sci.com/lomiri#Contribute -
