Re: hot custom_icon modification

[Eduardo Suárez <eduardo ctm ulpgc es>]

Dear Christian,

It sounds really interesting. However, not only I am not an experimented 
developer but also nowadays I have not the time to deal with it. 
Otherwise, it would be a pleasure to get involved in gnome.

Thanks a lot for the info. Kind regards,
-Eduardo Suárez

Christian Neumair wrote:
> Dear Eduardo,
>
> El jue, 17-04-2008 a las 09:35 +0100, Eduardo Suárez escribió:
>   
> > I'd like to be able to set a default icon to a file/folder from the 
> > context menu.
> >
> > I have seen scripts that modify the xml metafiles, but they just work 
> > for directories that are not open from nautilus, or they need nautilus 
> > to be restarted.
> >
> > Someone could point me out how can this be done/where to ask?
> >     
>
> We do not yet offer any API for modifying metadata. However, I'd
> patronize anybody who wants to work on a D-Bus API for that.
>
> As discussed some weeks ago, we also need a D-Bus API for opening and
> closing windows, and getting/setting their properties.
>
> best regards,
>  Christian Neumair
>
>