diff --git a/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml b/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
index 4800beb472..f1f20d7acb 100644
--- a/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
+++ b/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ chown -R -v root:root /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;</userinput></screen>
     enabled).</para>
 
     <para>If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application>
-    or <application>KDE</application> you may like to create a desktop file so
-    that <application>Firefox</application> appears in the panel&apos;s
+    or <application>KDE</application> you may like to create a firefox.desktop
+    file so that <application>Firefox</application> appears in the panel&apos;s
     menus. If you didn&apos;t enable startup-notification in your mozconfig
     change the StartupNotify line to false. As the
     <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
diff --git a/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml b/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
index 0a27b3f68e..4863956d16 100644
--- a/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
+++ b/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
@@ -234,6 +234,27 @@ ln -s ../lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird<
       not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at <ulink
       url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.</para>
     </tip>
+
+    <para>If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application>
+    or <application>KDE</application> you may wish to create a
+    thunderbird.desktop file so that <application>Thunderbird</application>
+    appears in the panel&apos;s menus. If you didn&apos;t enable
+    startup-notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to
+    false. As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+[Desktop Entry]
+Encoding=UTF-8
+Type=Application
+Name=Thunderbird
+Comment=Fetch Your Email
+Icon=thunderbird
+Exec=thunderbird
+Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;
+StartupNotify=true
+Terminal=false
+EOF
+ln -sv -f /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/chrome/icons/default/default256.png /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png</userinput></screen>
     </sect3>
   </sect2>