Hellow! Is there a way to change the default iconset? The default icons for file navigation pane items often do not match a selected system's theme and don't reflect file types. The example of disired icon view is e.g. nautilus
-- WBR Yuri.
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4Pane can use either the system icons, or its own. IIRC it uses the system ones by default, but you can see and change this in Options > Configure 4Pane > The Display > Misc: 'Whenever possible, use stock icons. See also https://www.4pane.co.uk/manual/ConfiguringDisplay.htm
If that setting is already ticked, it might be worth trying temporarily changing your system font and see if 4Pane changes with it.
Regards,
David
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The setting you mentioned affects toolbar icons only. What I desire is to see smarter file icons in file panes, see the screenshot (the same folder content in nautilus over 4Pane).
Ah, I see what you mean. No, 4Pane intentionally doesn't do mime-types. From the FAQ:
Why doesn't 4Pane look up the mime-type of each file it displays?
Speed. Opening my /usr/bin directory containing several thousand files used to take less than a second in 4Pane, compared with 15 seconds in Konqueror. Admittedly that was some time ago, and the difference is much less with a more modern computer. Nevertheless, why spend time and cpu cycles checking when you hardly ever need to know the answers?
Of course that was written a long time ago (probably 2008), and those 15 seconds would have been in 2003! Nevertheless it's not a feature that anyone else has requested and, for most files, the ext (.txt, .ods) already provides that information.
For the exceptions, 4Pane 7.0 has a new feature: the third tab of a file's 'Properties' dialog (Alt-P) now has a field that shows the output of doing /usr/bin/file on the selected filepath.
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Hi,
4Pane can use either the system icons, or its own. IIRC it uses the system ones by default, but you can see and change this in Options > Configure 4Pane > The Display > Misc: 'Whenever possible, use stock icons. See also https://www.4pane.co.uk/manual/ConfiguringDisplay.htm
If that setting is already ticked, it might be worth trying temporarily changing your system font and see if 4Pane changes with it.
Regards,
David
The setting you mentioned affects toolbar icons only. What I desire is to see smarter file icons in file panes, see the screenshot (the same folder content in nautilus over 4Pane).
Ah, I see what you mean. No, 4Pane intentionally doesn't do mime-types. From the FAQ:
Of course that was written a long time ago (probably 2008), and those 15 seconds would have been in 2003! Nevertheless it's not a feature that anyone else has requested and, for most files, the ext (.txt, .ods) already provides that information.
For the exceptions, 4Pane 7.0 has a new feature: the third tab of a file's 'Properties' dialog (Alt-P) now has a field that shows the output of doing /usr/bin/file on the selected filepath.
Thank you for the reply, the reasons are admittable :-) And thanks for the file manager too!