Kubuntu 10.04 How to create an icon on desktop?

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 05:35:16 pm Larry Alkoff wrote:
> On 08/04/2010 03:08 PM, Alan Dacey Sr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 04:50:29 pm Larry Alkoff wrote:
> >> In previous versions of Kubuntu it was only necessary to right
> >> click on the desktop to create an icon with settings in ~/Desktop.
> >> 
> >> I can't seem to do that in 10.04.
> >> 
> >> I'd be grateful if someone told me how to do that.
> >> 
> >> Larry Alkoff
> > 
> > Drag and drop a menu entry on your desktop.  Just be sure you unlock
> > your widgets first or nothing will happen.
> 
> Where are menu entries kept?

Just drag an item from your K-menu to your desktop

> I've never used a widget - how can I tell if they are unlocked?

If you drag an item from the kmenu and an icon does not appear, right-click 
somewhere on your desktop and select 'unlock widgets'

> I'm sorry to display my ignorance but I do almost everything from the
> command line except clicking on program icons to open them.
> 
> Larry

You might like to check out krunner (by hitting alt-f2) to open and run 
programs from there (among other things)
http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Krunner

Clay