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tartan

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From: Moscow, Russia

Registered: 2009-09-24

Posts: 61

[SOLVED]Gnome icon themes - folder icons

I think it belongs here.

I made some folder icons for  retrofukation icons theme and tried to apply them as documents, music etc. folder icons, but did not succeed. Then I thought the theme was written wrong, and tried to apply 100% working (in that u-distro) Humanity theme, but with the same effect.

Then I updated the system, but nothing happened.

Then I googled for a while, but found nothing worth reading - maybe because of bad search query...

Anyway, does anyone know how to make 'places' icons work?

//I run a standalone wm and use lxappearance. When I downloaded and tried gnome-control-center, it did not help as well.

P.S. The icons:

Last edited by tartan (2010-04-22 18:44:03)

alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome icon themes - folder icons

ubuntu (and my arch) uses xdg-user-dirs-gtk to do this. set the directories in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, then run xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update.
I use full blown gnome though, so i dont know if the proper icons will actually be displayed for you.

tartan

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From: Moscow, Russia

Registered: 2009-09-24

Posts: 61

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome icon themes - folder icons

Yes, that works just fine, thank you! xdg-user-dirs was not installed, because I did not install the whole gnome. I installed it and updated the directories (xdg-user-dirs-update) and now the icons look just like I want.

But I have a couple of folders (like ~/Distros or ~/Source) for which I would like to set custom icons too.

So I have ~/.icons/retrofukation/scaled/places/folder-source.png and ~/Source directory. Any chance to set an icon for it?

Last edited by tartan (2010-04-22 18:59:43)

Cosmin

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 248

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome icon themes - folder icons

@alex_anthony thank you for the tip. I didn't know about this

LATER: Is there any way to add another folders / icons ? I like how it shows in bookmarks nautilus the small icon

Last edited by Cosmin (2010-05-25 15:14:14)