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Idea #23933: Set icons for specific files

Written by gameguy95 the 9 Mar 10 at 01:15. Related project: Dolphin. Status: New
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i have seen that you can set icons for files with specific extensions, yet, as a user who is still warming up to ubuntu,i miss the feature in windows where you could go in the settings of a file and change the icon for just that specific file without having to have every file that has that specific name with that specific icon (for example have a file in my home folder titled Test.ext with icon 1 and another file in my documents folder with the same name using icon 2.) i noticed you could do this with folders but would truly appreciate the ability to do this with individual files.
Tags: dolphin icon look

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Solution #1: Change the icon system
Written by gameguy95 the 9 Mar 10 at 01:15.
edit the icon system so that, under the settings, you have the ability to change the icon for the individual file and not neccesarily any files with the same name and/or extension
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Solution #2: add file icons to the .directory
Written by gameguy95 the 10 Mar 10 at 07:38.
the .directory file contains the icons for folders right? why not add the icons for files into that?
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Solution #3: make a .icons file
Written by gameguy95 the 10 Mar 10 at 07:44.
we have a .directory file for icons for folders, why not make a .icons (or other similar name) that would allow us to set icons on individual files inside a folder.

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alhernau wrote on the 9 Mar 10 at 09:03
On most *Nix systems files are recognized from their content, not from their extension. So renaming "photo.jpg" to "photo.txt" should still display it as a JPEG file.
Currently most of cool features like distinct icons for each folder or cached thumbnails, just clutter yours folders with hidden files or folders like ".directory" or ".thumbnails"

gameguy95 wrote on the 10 Mar 10 at 00:27
@alhernau: so? they're hidden so they won't bother you and it's not like they take up 100 MB a piece

marshmallow1304 wrote on the 14 Mar 10 at 04:01
Those hidden files can be extraordinarily annoying. I've been switched to Linux-only for over a year and I'm still clearing all the thumbs.db and desktop.ini files out of my music collection.

Auzy wrote on the 14 Mar 10 at 05:37
Why are you removing them from your collection marshmellow? Do you really think they matter?

gameguy95 wrote on the 27 Mar 10 at 22:02
^ he thinks it will save him space

Auzy wrote on the 28 Mar 10 at 07:24
Yep.. Maybe he'll save 10MB if he removes every single one.. Thumbs.db is no longer used, and hasn't been since Vista anyway. Thumbnail caches in windows are centralised now (possibly as a means to enhance security).

And desktop.ini's make do sense. But if they are showing up on linux, its only because Linux SHOULD be treating hidden files on Fat32/NTFS the same as .file files.


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