Re: Custom Icons

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 22 Nov 2002, Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 15:53, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:17:01PM -0500, Eric Fields wrote:
> > > Currently, as a high school student about to enter college, I'm not a
> > > computer-programmer, but from what i do know, i think that this is not
> > > too grand an obstacle.
> > 
> > A far easier solution would be to just make a symbolic link to your new
> > directory.  This wouldn't take any programming on anyone's part,
> > compared to making Gnome smart enough to know when the user has moved
> > some data out from under it.
> 
> True, but it would be nice if the archetcture supported it.
> 
> I don't know exactly how Nautilus's icon mechanism works, but it does
> have dotfiles in lots of directories.
> 
> I know EFM used a .icons file in every directory for just this reason.

I think it works if you rename it using nautilus (otherwise it's a bug), 
but it's hard to do if you rename it from e.g. the shell. Can't do that 
until we get proper extended attributes in the filesystem.

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