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Adding icon Paths to KDE

One problem with KDE is that you are give only two places from which to select icons. A folder in /usr/share/icons and ~/.kde/share/icons. This means you can never easily access the large Gnome icons in /usr/share/pixmaps. This little edit shows you how.

In your home directory is a text file called ~/.kde/kderc. Open it in kedit and add new directories in the following format:

In my copy, [KDE Setup] didn't exist anywhere. You can insert several icon paths, just place a colon between each one. After making the change, log out, and then back in for the change to take effect.

As you can see in the graphic below, the new paths have been added to the Properties window.

Here is my current desktop showing Mozilla M14 under LinuxPPC.