https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14576
--- Comment #10 from alexxcons <[email protected]> --- I am not saying that setting the icon manually should be the only option. Just think it should be the default option. But you are right that this is only a nice add .. .the cherry on the cake. Primary goal should be to allow custom-icons at all. Meanwhile I looked a bit further into the nautilus way of doing things. In "nautilus-file.c" there is a method "get_custom_icon(..)". A bit more digging reveals that nautilus uses the metadata of gvfs( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs or https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs ) to store the path to the custom icon. I think that is a very nice approach. Thunar anyhow relies on gvfs if it comes to trash-support, removable media or remote file systems .. so IMO good to use the same standard to save file-specific meta information. You can read all metadata e.g with "gvfs-info -a metadata::*". After setting a custom-icon with nautilus it is shown there. And there is "gvfs-set-attribute", so I guess your use-case should be covered, you can script it for huge folder-trees. So I would strongly prefer to use gvfs to store file-specific metadata over using folder.jpg -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Xfce-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-bugs
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