Re: Folder Icons

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  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. 

Sigh, I already explained how to do this.  To quote myself:

> Go to the Edit menu.  Select Preferences.  Go to the Caching page.
> Turn on the option that says "Allow customization of icons in icon
> view".  Click OK.  
> 
> Click mouse button 3 on a file and select Properties from the popup
> menu.  Go to the Options page, and click on the icon button.  Change
> the icon image.  Click OK on the preferences dialog.  The file's icon
> will change.
> 
> This is documented in the GNOME User's Guide in the node
> "http://www.gnome.org/users-guide/gmcprefs.html#GMCPREFS-CACHE".  The
> reason this option is not turned on by default is that metadata
> lookups for icons can get really slow on systems with home directories
> mounted over NFS.
> 
> The to-be-rewritten version of the file manager will support lazy
> updating of the icon lists, so that it will lookup icons on demand
> rather than loading all of them in one shot, thus eliminating the need
> for this ugly option.

Please read the mailing list archives before asking questions like
these.  This was answered exactly two days ago.

  Federico