Re: Folder Icons

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

Steve Homer wrote:
> 
> So long as we keep the fallback icon, this is a pretty good idea.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre-John Mas [mailto:ama@act.qc.ca]
> Sent: 04 August 1999 16:45
> To: Gnome Mailing List
> Cc: "recipient.list.not.shown"
> Subject: Folder Icons
> 
> Gnome being graphic and all, I was wondering how you guys would feel
> about the idea of being able to use your own icons for your folders
> in the file viewer. The approach is pretty simple, though the file
> viewer would have to be adapted to support custom icons. The approach
> would be to have a file '.icon' in the folder which would either be
> a reference to an icon or maybe even the icon itself.
> 
> Having specific icons for folders in a graphical environment is
> actually quite useful. On another platform that I use it helps
> me quickly locate my internet tools folder, my development folder
> and any other folder that I have felt worthy of a particular
> use.
> 
> Andre

A better idea, IMHO would be to allow users to specify any icon for any
file or folder. This way users don't need to mess with hidden files, or
scattering .icon files all about or anything similar, they just
right-click on the folder, go to "Set Icon" (or what have you), and
select the icon they want.

    Jim Cape
    http://www.jcinteractive.com

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