Re: [rox-devel] icons

[Garrett C <ga...@cs...>]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Garrett C wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if there was any way in ROX to set a directory or link
> > icon to a specific picture.  For example, on my icon bar I would like
> > different icons for the cdrom, windows drive, home directory and floppy
> > drive.
> 
> Not at the moment. In fact, you can't even have mount points on the
> iconbar at the moment. The whole panel thing should probably be changed so
> that it acts like the pinboard - ie, stored in a config file rather than
> as a directory. Then you'd also be able to set up a site-wide default
> panel :-)
> 
> Do we need icons for all directories or just mount points? If the latter,
> we can just search for icons called 'mounted_floppy.xpm' and
> 'unmounted_floppy.xpm' in Choices, where 'floppy' is the leafname of the
> mount point. The other option is to (finally!) implement the pattern-
> matching-on-directories feature. Could be a bit slow, though...
> 
> What would people prefer?
> 

How about the first idea as default, dealing with mount points and
anything on the panel.

However, you could implement the matching-on-directories feature as an
option so people could define icons for anything if they wanted.  This
would override the previous idea. 

I was looking at a few screenies of Nautilus the other day, and I noticed
what may be a similar feature, but extending it somewhat. Directories and
files appeared to have extra images overlaid in some cases, to indicate
properties such as 'draft', or 'proof-read'.  Having the ability to
overlay specified icons on certain files/directories could be a neat
feature.

Chris