I read on Aaron Siego’s blog that there had been a lot of requests for having traditional icons on the desktop under Plasma. I thought hey, that sounds like something easy that I can do real quick. Boy was I wrong. The Plasma::Icon and IconApplet were in serious disarray and suffering from bit-rot due to the numerous changes in Plasma since it was last maintained. With a lot of help from Marco Martin I’ve been able to get things looking good and hopefully things will look good and work right when KDE 4.0 is released.