Quote Originally Posted by bob58
Hello....I would like some help on changing a couple of ICONS on my desktop. I have installed a photo viewer program called "gwenview". After I untarred it, and did the rest, the executable icon is that blue gear.

I guess its OK cause it does the same thing no matter what the icon is, but it is a system icon and I would like to choose something a little different. I tried in past to change icons but it ended up associating every kind of similar file with the same icon and it looked bad.

I would like one step at a time to do this so I dont end up with the little "gimp" guy associated with all my audio files! Thanks ...bob
I'm sure you already know most of this but complete instructions to change the icon on a 'desktop' item:
Right click on the desktop item & select 'properties'. Under the 'general' tab, click on the icon. You will get a list of standard icons. If you don't want any of these, , click on 'other icons'. You will get another list. If these are not what you want either, click on 'browse' & browse to find the one you want.
Another, more difficult, way: Open the desktop item in a text editor, find where it sets the icon & edit it.
Gwenview standard icon is a cartoon head with a big pair of glasses called gwenview.png. I tried gwenview on my mandrake system, the icon was located in /usr/share/icons/ hicolor & locolor set, should be in the same place but do a 'find files' for it.