strange icon problem

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Claude Jones wrote:

> Andrzej Kąkolewski wrote:
>
>> Dnia 28-01-2005, pią o godzinie 00:30 -0500, Claude Jones napisał(a):
>>
>>> I tried to change the icon for a program that came up as a 
>>> gear-wheel by right clicking and going to properties. In there there 
>>> seemed to be a way but the result was that about 70% of my icons in 
>>> the \usr\bin folder have been converted to the same icon. Can 
>>> someone tell me what's going on?
>>
>>
> Thanks, but finding pixmaps is not my problem. I'm running KDE. I 
> tried to change the icon for one program that I had placed on my 
> desktop. By right clicking the icon and selecting properties, you can 
> get to a dialogue that allows you to change the icon, but, this 
> changed not only the icon for the one program, but the icons for a 
> huge number of programs.
>
You most probably asociated the icon for files of type executable...