change icons of folders

[zeltak]

Hi again

i thought it would be cool to have an option to change icons for user selected folders. this is done under kde by reading the .directory file

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=/home/zeltak/MLT/programs/Krusader/Shortcuts/Media_Music_Zmusic.svg

perhaps we can have the same or maybe consider another method. would be cool to distinguish often used folders

thx

zeltak

[IgnorantGuru]

My concern with this is the overhead - having to look within each directory and read a file for the icon. In KDE this kind of bloat and lag is normal, but spacefm is designed to be light and fast. It also doesn't use an external vfs that caches such things. Of course it could be made optional.

[dosimple]

thunar seems to collect such per-directory customisations in a central file, so that it is still fast - just a thought.

[ghost]

If this is what we're talking about in the screen shot below, I'd love to be able to change icons in folders, so that in the HOME they all don't look the same, but are distinguished by the different icons for the Parent directories; music, pictures, movies, etc...

http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre3/135696-3.png

Maybe an option to right click and chose the folder you want and replace it that way, and then this will keep things light and fast still...

THANKS

[iNili]

Sorry to bump this thread but i wish too a way to customize icons on folder "home" they have all the same standart icon, at least music, video, images,desktop, documents must be different. I have explained even on #! forum here http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=37376 any way tell us how we can do onself. Thunar have this possibility and /home is pretty quick, no slow no lag at all agree. I use mainly SpaceFM, so please take into consideration for this feature. Thank you!

[clemencyworld]

I really need this feature. If I can add icon to my custom command then I think its a possibility to do so for other folders and items. I love spacefm

[nPHYN1T3]

I'd also like to see this feature. Most the "full DE" file managers show the various "special" icons for things like the Download folder, Home, Music, Videos and so on. Any retort about performance hits is kinda silly because other wise SpaceFM shouldn't allow file thumbnailing either. Allow the user to decide of their machine is fast enough to "take the hit" and waste clock cycles on such a thing. I can't see loading the odd icon is going to chew more resources than say "Show Folder sizes."

Sad to see this has been open for ten years.

[scarlion1]

Unfortunately the developer ghosted us and his projects for unknown reasons, but one has to assume something rather serious happened to cause that.  Also unfortunately there hasn't been anyone skilled enough to fork the project and update it so it'll at least be gtk3 compliant.  That's probably impossible for one person working voluntarily.  I suppose someday gnome will stop running gtk2 code, then we'll really be fscked.  Maybe by then AI can port the code for us, though so who knows.  Until then, the best I've been able to do is use the Bookmarks side bar.  I can add any folder I want there and I can set a custom icon for each one (right click > properties).

[nPHYN1T3]

I'd rather everything still be GTK2 since Gnome broke GTK3+ by design. (They stopped enumerating XScreens which breaks everything for hardware configs like mine).

Life sucks so I'm sure something got him. Storms, bank/finance/job, societal insanity, peanuts...hell these days bombings and war are much more likely. (See societal insanity)

It would be nice to have this, I mean pcmanfm is light as furerk and it shows the special folder icons for things like home, desktop, downloads etc but it's not a deal breaker, just nice.

That said I think his response was more masking a lack of motivation. I've seen a lot of devs lately saying similar things. "I don't want to bloat the code base and adding 2 color values in hex will take things from 2Kb to 3TB!" It's like they are scared to say "Sorry, depressed, no motivation, just no."