Kubuntu 10.04 How to create an icon on desktop?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Thursday 12 August 2010, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Larry Alkoff 
<labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Is it not possible to create a program icon on the desktop
> > whether or not it exists in some menu?  The kind you got with a
> > right click and were given the opportunity to create a program
> > icon?
> 
> yes. Right-click desktop, Create New -> Lin to Application

That doesn't work in KDE 4 by default. You first need to switch the 
desktop type.

  --Reinhold