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Bug 334103 - custom icon selection dialog starts in my home directory
custom icon selection dialog starts in my home directory
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Properties Dialog
2.13.x
Other All
: Low minor
: future
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 442408 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-10 08:51 UTC by Marius Gedminas
Modified: 2012-08-14 21:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Marius Gedminas 2006-03-10 08:51:02 UTC 
When I want to change an icon for a launcher on my desktop, I open the
properties dialog and click on the icon.  I get the Gtk+ file chooser dialog
opened in my home directory.  There are no icons in my home directory.  I would
like to choose an icon from my icon theme, but I have no idea where in my file
system those icons live.

Please make the file chooser show the directory which contains the currently
used icon by default instead of the user's home directory.

Other information:
(I use a development version of Ubuntu Dapper Drake)
Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2006-03-10 11:39:49 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report!
We may want to use some sort of theme icon chooser similar to "EggIconChooser" for launchers. For paths we currently start the selection inside the path, which seems to be fine, because usually your preferred icon is inside the folder.
Comment 2 Susana 2007-08-07 15:37:13 UTC 
*** Bug 442408 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Matt 2008-03-17 02:19:55 UTC 
Hard to believe this has been open for over two years!  It would be a minor fix to have the file-chooser default to the directory containing the currently selected icon, wouldn't it?

This one is pretty bad for usability, even for a relatively experienced Linux user.
Comment 4 Luca Bruno 2008-12-10 20:41:45 UTC 
What about using the same approach of gnome-panel for launchers? It's really intuitive.
Forwarded from <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384918>.
Maybe #508356 can be related to this bug.
Comment 5 Richard Neill 2010-02-15 03:41:10 UTC 
This is one where KDE gets it exactly right: you get taken to a graphical preview of the various icons available, and the option (should you want it) to browse to a custom one.
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 21:32:29 UTC 
We now show the current directory not HOME.