[Lazarus] Lazarus icon on desktop has lost its cheetah icon (replaced with paper page icon).

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:28:32 +1000
"Peter Williams" <pewtas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> This is only a minor bug... but it's annoying. Previously, when I was
> using Lazarus 0.9.24 beta (weeks ago now) I had Lazarus in my Kmenu /
> Development menu with a cheetah icon. Now, after following Mattias's
> instructions (a few weeks back) I have Lazarus 0.9.25 beta installed
> {thank you, Mattias :-) } and it seems to be working pretty well.
> However, the kmenu / Development / Lazarus programming language menu
> item (both in the kmenu & the link on my desktop) have lost the
> cheetah icon and instead they display a very boring icon which looks
> a bit like a white piece of paper. (see attached file... it was
> created from doing a snapshot of my screen then cropping out the
> appropriate section with The GIMP -- "temp1.jpg" -- 8K in size)

This is the default icon of your distribution.

The cheetah icon is lazarus/images/ide_icon48x48.png.

 
> Note that I don't think this is a Lazarus bug... it seems to be a
> Linux Kubuntu 4.0 problem, as I've had this happen with other kmenu /
> menu items. E.g. the real icon is lost and replaced with this boring
> paper page icon.
> 
> In a related question: I used to use Mirco$oft Windowz (many different
> versions) for a long time. One feature of Windowz which I did quite
> like is that if you created what Windowz called a 'shortcut' then you
> could edit its properties and click on the 'change icon' link and
> pick any .ico file (e.g. a icon file) and when you applied the
> change... presto... your shortcut had a new icon. What is the Kubuntu
> equivalent of doing this?!? Note: because I don't feel very
> comfortable with the command line in Kubuntu.... I would prefer to
> use a program in Kubuntu for changing the icons which has a GUI
> interface. ;-)
> 
> I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.0... if that helps. I can provide
> additional system specs as requested. *SMILE*

I don't know kubuntu. 

Mattias