How to change slab icon?

[Sciamano]

I'm very happy about my openSUSE GNOME installation (I used to use Ubuntu before) but one thing I don't like is the icon of the slab menu.

How can I change that little computer to something different?

I've found a previous post about this, but even though a solutions seemed to be found, it was not clearly explained.
The thread was this.

Thanks

[suskewiet]

If you edit /usr/share/gnome-main-menu/slab-window-glade, there is a GtkToggleButton widget name slab-main-menu-panel-button-bottom.

There will be a child widget of class GtkImage that represents the icon name.
There is also a widget for a corresponding label. If you remove the Computer label so it really looks like Vista.

This is exactly what you should do, I've done it myself. Find the line

<widget class="GtkToggleButton" id="slab-main-menu-panel-button-bottom">

Note the "bottom" which means you are changing the panel at the bottom of the screen. If your panel is on top, look for the slab-main-menu-panel-button-top tag.

Beneath this code, look for a line:

<property name="icon_name">name_of_file</property>

Here you can insert the filename of your custom icon. In my experience, you can't enter a path name because the icon does not change if you do. Also the extension (.png .jpeg ...) may not be written. Just the name of the file. Of course this means suse needs to find the file and therefor you need to place the icon in the correct folder. I believe this was the /usr/share/pixmaps folder.

You can also change the text next to the icon by changing the line:

<property name="label" translatable="yes">openSUSE</property>

Here openSUSE will be shown instead of Computer.

[Sciamano]

It worked perfectly!
Thanks a lot for the step-by-step instructions!

+1!