creating custom icons for kde 4 desktop

[Stefan Dotterweich]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 09:11:53 Rick Miles wrote:
> On Thursday 19 February 2009 17:48:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Rick Miles wrote:
> > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > >  > > Rick Miles wrote:
> > >  > >> I have asked about this on two threads and apparently no one else
> > >  > >> saw it as an issue but AFAIC it is really handy among other things
> > >  > >> to hit an icon that will open up a browser at a predefined URL.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > I can do that just fine here. Right-click on desktop, "Create
> > >  > > New->Link to location". I enter "http://www.google.com/linux" and
> > >  > > there, I just created it. I double-click it, Firefox opens up
> > >  > > google/linux. You select the icon, press F2 and can rename it to
> > >  > > whatever you want (you don't need to keep the ".desktop" suffix).
> > >  > > You can also right-click and in the properties select another icon
> > >  > > for it.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > This is with vanilla, unmodified KDE 4.2.0.
> > >
> > > You must have a different brand of vanilla I can't do that on my desktop
> > > but I can do that in the folder ~/Desktop which the kde docs Anne
> > > referred me to say to use that method as a workaround if one wants that
> > > kind of kde 3 desktop functionality on a kde 4 desktop.
> > >
> > > I think this may be a point of confusion desktop or the folder ~/Desktop
> > > on the desktop.
> >
> > Your desktop can be whatever you want it to be. 
>  and I don't want to have to put a folder named anything on top of it to be able 
> to add my own icons to it.
> 
> > You can have
> > ~/.desktopicons instead of ~/Desktop.  I don't see where the problem is,
> > if there is a problem at all.
> >
> The method you prefer is discussed in the KDE docs under the heading " If you 
> prefer a Classic, KDE3-style Desktop" I don't. I'd rather learn how to work with 
> KDE4 but not be constrained with what I can do.
> 
> For example, I want a home icon that will open up konqueror with my home directory 
> and I want it in Quicklaunch on my panel. I have a diamond crystal 42x42 home.png 
> in my local icons directory. 
> 
> This would be easy the way you want to do it into a folder using foldview to paste 
> a folder across the entire desktop. However, that method won't work for installing 
> an icon in the quicklaunch applet.
> 
> A file named home.desktop with the lines below saved into /usr/share/applications 
> gives me an icon I can put in quicklaunch using the KDE quicklaunch add applet 
> selection/menu and when I select it I get my home directory in konqueror.
> 
> There is no folderview in Quicklaunch.
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Home
> Comment=Home Directory
> Exec=/usr/bin/konqueror ~/
> Icon=/usr/local/share/icons/home-42.png
> Terminal=0
> Type=Application
> Categories=Application;Network;
> 
> 
 
It is done exactly like James Richard Tyrer said. Drag the favicon in Konqueror anywhere on your desktop and you get an icon with a link to your file. You can also drag and drop any file from Konquerer or Dolphin file view or even the Kickoff menu.
You can drop them onto the panel, too.

and don't forget to unlock your desktop first ;) won't work otherwise

cheers,

Stefan
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.