I'm not a Nautilus developer, but I assume that it's possible because both UbuntuOne and Dropbox do it.
I'd recommend looking at code for Dropbox's Nautilus plugin as a start. Natan On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've been working on a usability project that enables Nautilus to > automatically give distinctive, quickly-recognisable icons (not just > emblems) to files--to address the problem whereby a user finds him- or > her-self `lost in a sea of indistiguishable icons'. > > I've made good progress, except that the way that I've patched > Nautilus to use my library is somewhat less graceful than I'd like; > ideally, I'd develop a *plugin* instead of a *patch*, but it's not > clear to me form the documentation and tutorials that I've read, > whether Nautilus plugins actually have the capability of supplying the > icons for files. > > Is it possible for a plugin to supply files' icons? If so, where > should I look to learn how to do this in my plugin? Does anyone have a > reference to tutorial on hand, or would somone be so kind as to write > me a little example code? :) > > -- > Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). > > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list >
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