no icon in kubuntu feisty's kde menu

Im working on it for ya :P

when you say Iconless, can you find where the entry leads to, or what file its trying to use?

As said, /usr/share/applications/bmp.desktop specifies "bmp.svg" as the icon. In /usr/share/menu/beep-media-player no icon is indicated at all.

The only bmp.svg file available on my system is:
$ locate -i bmp.svg
/usr/share/icons/bmp.svg

According to 'apt-file search bmp.svg', there are a total of three packages that contain a file by that name (beep-media-player, gnome-icon-theme-dlg-neu, gnome-icon-theme-nuovo). Of these, only the beep-media-player package is installed. Maybe the problem is it's location; it is one of the very few images in the exact directory /usr/share/icons, and the only svg. Unfortunately I have no idea where KDE looks for it's menu icons, or how to figure out if it is trying to load an icon and if so, which one.

When starting the program from the kde menu, it start fine but shows a generic kde icon next to the mouse instead of the program's icon; that very same generic icon is shown when adding beep-media-player to the panel. In kde's taskbar though, beep-media-player does have an icon, but it is different from the one in /usr/share/icons/bmp.svg. So far I've been unable to find out what image it is. Attaching screenshots compilation.

Is there any evidence to show that it is just KDE that beep media player has this trouble. I installed it on xfce fine.

Maybe kde can't handle svg for menu icons at all?

When using kmenuedit from the command line, selecting the Multimedia folder, and then the bmp entry:
$ kmenuedit
 QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
 QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image

Strace of kmenuedit shows that the icon is found and opened:
 14627:access("/usr/share/icons/bmp.svg", R_OK) = 0
 14628:stat64("/usr/share/icons/bmp.svg", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6040, ...}) = 0
 14629:open("/usr/share/icons/bmp.svg", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 12

See also bug #93894 for a similar issue.

Just installed package dvdrip (ships an icon in /usr/share/pixmaps/dvdrip.svg) and it too lacks an icon in the kde menu; the kmenuedit error is the same for it as well. Seems this is a general kde problem indeed.

is the icon for dvdrip also a .svg?

yes, in dvdrip's desktop file the icon is set to "dvdrip"; this can only refer to /usr/share/pixmaps/dvdrip.svg. There a no icon files available by that name that are not svg, in any package (try 'apt-file search dvdrip.').

Still exists in kubuntu gutsy

This will not be fixed due to the fact the there is no active development on the package anymore and it should be replaced by the audacious package (see bug #66322 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344634