Executing WP from KDE desktop

I must be missing something simple here. I have installed WP8 on my SuSE7.1 machine. I Can't seem to get the program to execute from the icon I created on my KDE2 desktop unless I click the start in terminal option.Similarly, I can execute the program from the command line with no problem. Normal execution from the GUI however yields no reults. Any thoughts would be welcome. I've not had this problem with WP and other dusro's in the past and am wondering what might be unique to KDE2 and/or SuSe that would cause this. Paul