RE: [Nautilus-list] reset.png

["Ryan Muldoon" <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com
> [mailto:nautilus-list-admin lists eazel com]On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Blandford
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:59 PM
> To: andy differnet com
> Cc: Christian Rose; Darin Adler; Havoc Pennington;
> nautilus-list eazel com
> Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] reset.png
>
>
> Andy Hertzfeld <andy differnet com> writes:
>
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> >         I can take a shot at fixing the "reset.png"
> localization problem by
> > compositing the text
> > onto the property chit on the fly, as defined by a translatable string.
> > There will still be a problem that space is very limited, so
> you can't fit a
> > very long word in there.  I'll try to use a smaller font if it
> doesn't fit,
> > but at some point it might have to be truncated.
> >
> >         If that works out, I'll use a similar technique to
> translate the text
> > in some of the emblems, which I promised to fix a few months
> ago but forgot
> > about.  Are you aware of any other places in Nautilus where
> there's a similar
> > problem?
>
> If you're doing some icon compositing code, a similar but subtly
> different problem exists.  To be more specific -- jimmac made a lot of
> really nice folder icons for nautilus that go beyond the standard ones:
>
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php3?ikony=18
>
> Unfortunately, these don't survive theme changes.  It would be very cool
> to have themes be able to create new icons through compositing, and have
> a default set of nautilus emblems for those themes that don't.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
>
I wholeheartedly agree.....being able to specify more detail like that in a
folder icon is EXTREMELY useful to me.

Somewhere down the road, it would be cool if Nautilus could automatically
assign folders a special icon, given the folder's contents.  But that's down
the road. ;-)

	--Ryan

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