In Ubuntu 8.10, when creating a new launcher on the desktop, if you try to select a custom icon and hit the browse button to search for an image file, the file browser will not display any files for you even if some exist.
After the launcher is created, you can change the icon and the file browser works fine, so at least there is a work around.
Specific steps:
1) right click on desktop, choose "create launcher"
2) click icon button to open icon selection window
3) click "browse" button and go to a folder you know images exist (svg, png, nothing will display for you to select)
4) Cancel out of the file browser, select an icon from the normal icon selection list, and create the launcher.
5) Right click on the launcher and click "properties"
6) Click the icon button to select a different icon
7) Notice that it doesn't even bring up the icon selector, it just opens the file browser straight away, and you can now see files to select for the icons.
So really, this bug is both about the inconsistency in what comes up when you click the icon button, and the fact that you can't use a custom icon until the launcher is already created.
I'm updated, so it shouldn't be fixed already in the released package updates, but I have not tried any development packages or anything of that nature.
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For this particular issue, I think it is a misunderstanding of the process more so than a bug. When you get to step 3) in your procedure, you are browsing to a "folder that contains files", so no particular files will show up in the browse for a folder dialog until you select a folder. However, at that point, in the "Browse icons" list...you should see a list of the files. Does that make sense?