Re: Problem choosing icon when add new application launcher?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

But that doesn't work... I can choose whatever directory I want using Browse, but all files inside the chosen
directories are gone, i.e. it appears as the directories are emtpy (which they are not...), so I can't choose
anything... If I then copy the files from the chosen directory to /usr/share/pixmaps, I can select the icons....


BTJ

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:26:31 +1000
Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:42 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> 
> > If I add an application launcher, then the only place I can choose icons from is under /usr/share/pixmaps, is
> > this by design or is there some settings I can change so I can browse to any directory and choose an icon?
> > (having to copy the icon to /usr/share pixmaps to use it, is a bit annoying...)
> 
> You should be able to hit 'browse' and select another folder. I have
> also wondered about this default location. On Gentoo, /usr/share/pixmaps
> is populated with the most basic and visually unappealing icons I've
> encountered. I think it would make more sense to default this to
> ~/.icons ( or ~/.icons/$CURRENT_THEME ) but perhaps there is a good
> reason why /usr/share/pixmaps is the default.
> 
> You can make 'shortcuts' or 'places' or whatever they are, to folder
> locations, by dragging the folder to the left-hand pane when you've got
> 'places' mode activated in the left-hand pane in Nautilus. So at least
> this makes it faster to navigate to your icon folder.
> 
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