Kubuntu 10.04 How to create an icon on desktop?

[Larry Alkoff]

On 08/12/2010 11:11 AM, 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
>
> Michael
>

Unfortunately right click on Desktop, Create New -> Link to Application 
doesn't exist.

I see a menu with the following choices only:
Run command
Add Widgets
Add Panel
Remove Desktop activity
Lock widgets
Lock Screen
Leave
Desktop activity settings.

Running Kubuntu 10.04.

Larry