Kubuntu 10.04 How to create an icon on desktop?

[Tom Bell]

On 08/12/2010 02:00 PM, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> 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
>
>    
In the K menu, I first unlock the Widgets, then right click on
the item in the menu and it gives me the option to make
an icon on the desktop.
Good luck!

Tom