On Tuesday 08 December 2015 09:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 December 2015 09:44:38 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 December 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > It should be on the Settings menu.  Or you can right-click on any
> > > > menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
> > >
> > > Thanks!!  I could have sworn that I had looked in the Settings menu,
> > > several times, but it is indeed there.  Right click does not give Edit
> > > Menu, just edit item.
> > > But I still haven't managed to add an icon to the new menu entry.  It's
> > > odd that the Thunderbird tarball did not create a menu item with an
> > > icon.
> > >
> > > :-/
> >
> > I just tested it by myself. I find some strange behavior. If you press
> > the 'edit item' entry you are in the TDE Menu Editor. There is a a little
> > square on the right upper side of the window. If you press it, the Select
> > Icon menu appears. What now is strange that I can chose some icons that
> > work (I really get a new icon in the menu) but for other icons I chose,
> > nothing changes.
> >
> > Maybe test a few of those icons available to see if it is the same
> > problem.
>
> Thank you, Gerhard!  That worked and the Thunderbird entry now has an icon.
>  I think I'll now leave well alone!  So I haven't worked through the other
> icons to watch some of them failing.
>
> Oh, I can't resist it.  But later.  I'll report back again.

It let me have everything except "mimetypes", any attempt to select which, 
made it change back from whatever it was to a general blank.

I was going in and out of the one I actually wanted, because I kept changing 
my mind and trying something else.  This was mildly tedious because when I 
clicked on "other icons" some directory I didn't want came up, and it 
meant "browsing" to my Downloads folder and searching for the icon I wanted 
all through the rather large (fortunately alphabetical) folder.  

Then the last time I did it, I clicked on "other icons" - and was immediately 
offered five only, including the one I wanted, no navigating at all.  They 
turned out, on further examination, to be the only 5 .png files in my 
Downloads folder.  Bizarre, or what???  Not that I am complaining!  I don't 
mind my system being inexplicably intelligent.  I only mind when it is 
unaccountably stupid. ;-)

Thanks for the help.

Lisi