Re: Changing Icons

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 23 Apr 2003, Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> I'm interested in writing a script that can change nautilus's icons for
> particular files. I've found ~/.nautilus/metafiles, but while I can edit
> those files, I have to restart nautilus for it to notice my changes.
> (Reloading a directory or closing and reopening a directory isn't
> enough.)
> 
> Is there any way to do this without restarting nautilus?

Technically you could contact the nautilus corba server and change the 
metadata through that. However, that's far from easy.

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