Kubuntu 10.04 How to create an icon on desktop?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Tuesday 17 August 2010, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> 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.

Go to "Desktop activity settings" and change to activity type to 
"Folder View" (or whatever the english version is). Then you'll have 
a more classical desktop where you can create stuff like application 
links.

  --Reinhold