I'm using openSUSE 11.1 (32-bit) with KDE 4.2. I had the same system running as 64-bit two days ago, but had so many compatibility problems, that I decided to go back to 32-bit. Anyway, I did not have this problem in 64-bit, but it's showing up now in 32-bit.

When I install an application, I go into the menu editor and create a menu entry for that app. No problem. However, when I select the icon, if the icon name is icon.xpm, the icon does not show up in KDE's menu. Intead, I get the question mark. If I change the name of the icon, and point the menu item to this newly named (but still the same) file, it works fine. I also tried saving the same icon as a .png file (icon.png), and it worked fine that way.

Like I said, this wasn't a problem when I was running this 64-bit version, but it is in the 32-bit version. It seems like a configuration/setting file for KDE might be messed up, but that's an uneducated guess.

Any suggestions (other than rename all of my icons)?

When you set the icon to the icon.xpm file, is the path in the corresponding *.desktop file correct?

bcooksley wrote:When you set the icon to the icon.xpm file, is the path in the corresponding *.desktop file correct?

Yes it is. It took a while, but I figured out where to find those files and I tried manually editing them. The path was already correct in the file.

This appears to be a bug in KDE. Please update to KDE 4.3, and if that does not resolve the issue, file a bug report at bugs.kde.org.

Make sure to run "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" and log out and in again after changing the icon in KDE 4.3 to clear out any caches, etc.

Ok. I'll give that a shot. Thanks!