GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 325372
rename an image for folder icon
Last modified: 2008-08-06 17:20:58 UTC
Hi, I think that when an image is named "folder" its thumbnail should become the icon for the folder it's contained on. It's a neat feature I miss from my time in Windows. Thanks a lot.
I did some research, The files in ~/.nautilus/metadata contain summaries per folder, containing the sub-folders, and their normal custom icon in XML. If you were to delete the custom icon, set on a folder, the failover mechanism automatically reverts to the default folder icon. I bet we could have a little script somewhere that does either a or, solve this someother way, B A: scan the homedir periodicaly / on write and set the custom icon to folder.* if found. B: change nautilus, to read the custom_icon from the metadata xml file, and change that file to a found folder.* if it finds one. (thus enabling caching) I think this will keep the codebase change to a minimum, and keep the display script unchanged (as it allready reads the metadata file)
I don't think this is a useful feature for nautilus. A file manager should not do magic when there's no need for it.
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't think this is a useful feature for nautilus. A file manager should not > do magic when there's no need for it. > Then why does nautilus support thumbnail making? To visually aid the user. exactly what this feature would do. I see a lot of people recognize their image folders on windows by the small thumbails on the folder icon. Next to this, if a user sees the folder.jpg file, and also sees it set as the icon for the folder, he will recognize this functionality easier than trough the richt-click properties menu.
- You can already choose a custom icon: context menu, choose properties and hit the icon button. Tada! - Additionally, you can attach emblems to folders if you want them to look differently. - The name "folder.*" is totally non-standard and not localized.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84927 ***