Re: Folder Icons

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

HpG wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> That's a really good idea.
> It whould make life a lot easier, if I could choose a red folder icon
> this
> and a blue folder icon for that or even select an arbitrary icon for
> a certain folder.
> 
> Hanspeter

This feature is already there. You need to enable it from the
Preferences' Caching tab.

    Jim Cape
    http://www.jcinteractive.com

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