Locations
 

Locations

Michael Anderson

Anne-Marie Mahfouf

Revision Plasma 5.7 (2016-08-21)

This is a module to configure essential paths for the Plasma desktop.

Configure some KDE paths

Desktop path:

The Desktop folder contains all the files which you see in a Folder View widget on your desktop. The default path is usually ~/Desktop but you can change here the location of this folder.

Autostart path:

The Autostart folder contains applications or links to applications or scripts you want to start whenever Plasma starts. You can change the location of this folder if you want to.

Documents path:

This folder will be used by default to load or save documents from or to.

Download path:

This folder will be used by default to save your downloaded items.

Movies path:

This folder will be used by default to load or save movies from or to.

Pictures path:

This folder will be used by default to load or save pictures from or to.

Music path:

This folder will be used by default to load or save music from or to.

If you change a path and click Apply a dialog appears where you can choose to move the content to the new folder or use the new folder without moving the files.