8.10 observations & a question

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 10 October 2008 16:05, Brendan wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2008, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > Adding, say Firefox, to the [KMenu] Favorites (and also happens when
> > added to the desktop and panel) results in a plain 'gear' icon that
> > cannot be changed.
> > How does one change it?
>
> Haven't a clue. This one has stymied me as well.

I've had the same problem posted on the Fedora list, as the only distro with 
KDE4.1.1 is my F9. I think that I've resolved it, and now have a harddrive 
icon for my link to hardware device on the desktop.

My problem may be different to Nigel R's, and yours though, as Nigel mentioned 
Firefox. Anyway, I'd already done mkdir /mnt/sdb1, and added a line 
to /etc/fstab for this data drive partition with a FAT filesystem on it, so 
being unable to right click on the desktop, and get the "create new" menu 
item, I did the same from within the Desktop folder, as "Create New/Link to 
Device/ Hard Disc Device", Filled out the relevant stuff, and added the 
harddrive icon, which showed correctly in the Desktop folder. Dragged the 
icon, which instantly changed to a gear, and upon releasing the mouse, it 
remained as a big flat gear on the desktop. Having seen Nigel's post today, I 
thought I'd have another go at resolving the problem.

My ~/Desktop folder for some reason has Kaffeine in it as well, so I deleted 
the Kaffeine icon from the actual desktop, and dragged the Kaffeine icon in 
the Desktop folder onto the actual desktop. It dragged as a gear, but when I 
released the mouse the Kaffeine icon appeared. Now Kaffeine in the desktop 
folder is named as kaffeine.desktop, so I thought that's worth a try, and 
renamed sdb1 to sdb1.desktop. Dragged sdb1.desktop to the actual desktop, and 
wonder of wonders, the gear is gone, and I have the actual harddrive icon on 
the desktop.

Kaffeine.desktop just shows as Kaffeine on the desktop, but my renamed sdb1 
shows as sdb1.desktop, but I can live with that until I find out why just 
adding .desktop to the file resolves the icon problem.

Don't know this is of any help to you guys.

Nigel H.