Re: documentation of small star on folder icons during dirdiff?

[Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu>]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 6 January 2013 17:37, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh princeton edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was confused when doing a dirdiff by what the significance could be
>> of the small star in the upper right of the folder icons in the dir
>> trees. I read most of the documentation here:
>> http://meldmerge.org/help/ but I did not see it mentioned.
>
> It's the last line under "States in folder comparisons", which says:
>     "Finally, the most recently modified file/folder has an emblem
> attached to it."

Indeed. I missed it. Thanks for pointing that out.

> Granted, that's not immensely informative. Problem is that I didn't
> want to say "it's the little star", because that's theoretically
> themeable. In practice, we ship our own version of the icon, so we
> probably should just say it; could you please file a bug? Ideally,
> that whole section would have a graphic showing what the states
> actually *look* like, but images in docs tend to get out of date.

That all makes sense.

Enhancement request posted:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691317

Thanks for your quick reply and help, Kai.

Scott