Desktop icons can be incorrected placed on the Desktop at login

[Gordon Lack]

I have my Desktop Folder settings as:

Layout: Folder View
Location: Show the Desktop folder

The icons are arranged how I want them and locked in place (a 3x8 array).

When I login the icons can be wrongly arranged. This does not happen every time, but does seem more likely to occur if I login immediately after a reboot rather than waiting for several minutes.

The mis-placemment, when it occurs, does seem to be consistent (i.e. the wrong arrangement is always the same wrong arrangement). [I have been unable to work out what that arrangement is. It is not date-time stamps on files, directory order or size)

As a work-around I have made .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc read-only, to prevent this wrong-arrangement being written to it and becoming persistent. This works, to the extent that if I log in an the arrangement is wrong I can logout, log straight back in and the arragement will then be as I desire.
This is inconvenient if I ever wish to change anything else configured in that file, though...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: plasma-desktop 4:5.13.5-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Dec 2 02:07:21 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-09 (206 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: plasma-desktop
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-26 (36 days ago)

[Gordon Lack (gordon-lack)]

This seems to be a timing issue.

I've only ever seen this on my desktop system, which had HDDs. On my laptop (with SSDs) it didn't happen, even though the desktop set-up was essentially the same.

And a few weeks ago I switched my desktop system over to SSDs. The problem no longer shows up there.

[Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore)]

This bug is very old, if it is still an issue please update the bug with information from a supported release.

[Gordon Lack (gordon-lack)]

As I said originally, this is intermittent.

All of my systems now have SSDs (see #2) but I have seen it once on 23.10 (Mantic).

It's not something that can be reproduced at will.

[Gordon Lack (gordon-lack)]

PS: I am not alone in seeing this. I just came across this:

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde/2018-July/028948.html

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