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Bug 410897 - shortcut folders don't show custom icons
shortcut folders don't show custom icons
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Metadata
2.17.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-22 17:45 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2013-04-24 16:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18



Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-02-22 17:45:46 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/86976

"Binary package hint: nautilus

This is the situation:

- I have a "music" folder on my home directory, where I keep music albums, a folder for each.

- For easier handling, each of these subfolders have a "folder.jpg" file inside, with the album cover. I have alt+clicked each of them, and set this jpg as their custom icon. Therefore, my music folder looks like this:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/8267/pantallazomusicabo1.png

-So, I created a shortcut on my desktop leading to this music folder. It would be logical for this folder to look exactly like its original, but this is what it looks like instead:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/2896/pantallazomusica1gu7.png

As you see only a handful of folders display their custom icons, and it's the ones I have set by hand. The rest show the usual folder icon. They should have inherited the custom icons from their "real" counterparts, but they didn't."
Comment 1 António Fernandes 2013-04-24 16:25:27 UTC
I cannot reproduce this on nautilus 3.6. It works as expected: custom icons set on the target folder subfolders are shown when I open the symlink.

It's worth noting that nautilus now opens the target path when a symlink is double-clicked. But even if I manually enter the symlink path into the location entry, the custom icons are shown as expected.

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