How to change the default K menu icon on openSuSE 10.3

by Snake

Perhaps have you noticed how the deafult K menu icon on openSuSE 10.3 doesn't match really well when you start customizing things around on your desktop. Changing the icon theme in the KDE control center will only get you the default K menu icon from KDE, and I haven't had a look on kde-look.org, which brings me to the only solution of quality: myself.

First of all, you have to know which icon theme you are currently using. To do so, open up the KDE control center, click "Appearance & themes", and then "Icons". See which one of the list is highlighted, and remember the name. For me it was "Crystal SUSE".

Once you know which theme you are using, fire up a console, and change the working directory to /opt/kde3/share/icons, by entering:

# cd /opt/kde3/share/icons

Next you need to copy the directory corresponding to the icon theme you are using (in my case it was "crystalsuse" onto your desktop by doing the following (as root):

# cp -R crystalsuse/ /home/"your login"/Desktop/

Once you have a copy of the icon theme on your desktop, you'll see, by browsing the directory, that there is a bunch of folders that are named after the size of the icons it contains. You need to change every file named "kmenu.png" in each of these folders (it's in "apps") for your desired icon, of the right size of course.

Also, you need to edit the file "index.theme" by changing the line "Name=Crystal SUSE" to whatever you like.

And to finish off, change the name of the directory containing your newly created icon theme on your desktop, and copy it back at /opt/kde3/share/icons, using the following command (still having /opt/kde3/share/icons as the working directory, and still as root):

# cp -R /home/"your login"/crystalsnake/ ./

And all you need to do to enjoy your new K menu icon is to open up the KDE control center and change your icon theme accordingly.

Impress your friends and make some of them laugh, with appropriate K menu icons.