Re: Custom Icons
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>
- Cc: Ross Vandegrift <ross willow seitz com>, Eric Fields <ericdfields comcast net>, <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Custom Icons
- Date: Mon Nov 25 08:57:00 2002
On 22 Nov 2002, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:53, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:17:01PM -0500, Eric Fields wrote:
> > > Currently, as a high school student about to enter college, I'm not a
> > > computer-programmer, but from what i do know, i think that this is not
> > > too grand an obstacle.
> >
> > A far easier solution would be to just make a symbolic link to your new
> > directory. This wouldn't take any programming on anyone's part,
> > compared to making Gnome smart enough to know when the user has moved
> > some data out from under it.
>
> True, but it would be nice if the archetcture supported it.
>
> I don't know exactly how Nautilus's icon mechanism works, but it does
> have dotfiles in lots of directories.
>
> I know EFM used a .icons file in every directory for just this reason.
I think it works if you rename it using nautilus (otherwise it's a bug),
but it's hard to do if you rename it from e.g. the shell. Can't do that
until we get proper extended attributes in the filesystem.
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