Mandrake did a little hack for their version of KDE 3.2 and it changed the name of their kmenu icon.

Want to change the default star icon to the one that your icon theme's author intended? Read on:

Head to ~/.kde/share/icons/ This is where your user installed icon themes will be (as long as they were installed using the tar.gz files like ftom kde-look)

Select the folder of the icon theme that you are using, or that you want to use.

Go into the size folders (16x16, 32x32, etc) and into the apps folder. The 2 most common are 32x32 and 48x48

Locate the icon named kmenu.png and rename it to menuk-mdk.png

Then reload your icon theme (K menu -> System -> Configuration -> KDE -> LookNFeel -> Icons, select a new theme, then your original theme and click apply)

Then you're all set. You should have a new menu icon. With this method, you should be able to select any icon you want to be your new K-Menu icon.


Many thanks to Mysti who helped me find the correct icon name.

Thanks. I hated that star icon. Great tip.

didn't worked here :(

Did you make sure to change at least the 32x32 and 48x48 icons? Also, if reloading the icon theme doesn't work, try restarting KDE to see if that helps.

Thanx, Its working now:D

You can also rename (or remove) all the menuk-mdk.png you may find in /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg subdirs

magic!!!!!!

I think I am stuck with the Ugly Star.

I tried it both LZ's way and iky_tg's way and its still there. Even rebooted.



FX

I don't have a ~/.kde/icon directory, nor do I have a kmenu.png file anywhere.

So now whats my next move?

If you have not installed any icon themes, you wouldn't have the folder.

btw: It's ~/.kde/share/icons

If you find an icon theme you want at KDE Look and install it (per instructions available on that site) then you will have that folder.

Otherwise, the default icon themes in KDE are in /usr/share/icons

Gracias amigo

i'm very new to linux and so need some help. when i try to rename the icon is says access was denied. i'm not logged in as root and am not sure how to do that if that will fix it. any help would be great

At the command line:

Via the Applications menu, select File Tools, then File Manager - Super User Mode. Enter the root password then navigate to the file in question. Right click to rename.

ahhh, that annoying little star is gone, thanks...

It's funny. I thought I was the only one that didn't like the star. I mean, it's not ugly or anything but it just doesn't fit for some reason. I wonder if they got the idea from SuSE using the little gecko icon. Anyway, thanks a bunch, LiquidZoo...

Yeah great job, altho you had to lead me thrue in in #musb...
Thanks,

-Luis

Resurrecting an old (and I mean OLD) thread to ask a question:

Those of you using Mandriva's KDE: Do these steps still apply? I'm thinking of installing Mandriva again on my new HD that I got to replace my linux hd (500 GB, plenty of room to play with) and I would like to know if they are still performing these little hacks to customize KDE.

There are much more recent threads on this topic - for example Mandriva Star in Kicker bar, K-menu Logo in 2007 Spring, Kde menu, Changing Gnome/KDE Star icon, and so on.

All findable with "search"

Yes, however since this is a thread that I wrote, I simply wanted to see if these steps still applied or if there was a different method. I now see that the answer is both. They do apply AND there are other methods which all accomplish the same task.