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Alternate folders for use with our base icon theme.
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Change folder icon (files) #189

Closed arah24 closed 4 years ago

arah24 commented 4 years ago

Would it be possible to replace files icon in numix-circle?

Changing the default one which has a horrendous purple background to something more simpler?

The default one

To something like this?

Modified version

palob commented 4 years ago

Are you referring to the background colour of the Numix Circle icon? We ship different colours. Go to where Numix Circle/Square is installed and search for file-manager. You'll find some alternative colours. Now look up and open the .desktop laucher file and change the icon line to file-manager-red for instance.

If you want to change the colour of the folder itself, this is the very purpose of numix-folders.

arah24 commented 4 years ago

I did a find on the file-manager name in directory or any of the subdirectories. I've done a recursive search on it as well; however no result appears for the file file-manager

palob commented 4 years ago

You'll probably find the .desktop file in usr/share/applications. Copy it to ~/.local/share/applications so you can edit it without root privileges and it is update-persistent.

arah24 commented 4 years ago

What .desktop file am I looking for? I can't seem to find the file-manager one in this instance.

palob commented 4 years ago

Which file manager do you use? Nautilus, Thunar, Dolphin, Caja, Pantheon Files......?

arah24 commented 4 years ago

Nautilus.

palob commented 4 years ago

In this case you need to look for org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop.

arah24 commented 4 years ago

Are there any documentations available that suggests when adding a colour extension to the end of the icon name for e.g. Icon=org.gnome.Nautilus.orange would show an example of the output ?

I've modified the org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop file to have any sort of colour, it changed the folder icon to a blank white folder with the star of david inside which isn't desirable for me.

Something like this for example

palob commented 4 years ago

Sorry, I do not understand what you are asking for. Adding that "colour extension" won't do anything for sure though. You need to edit it to Icon=file-manager-red or Icon=file-manager-blue or file-manager-green. That's all alternative colours we've got at the moment.

arah24 commented 4 years ago

I see thanks!

I've set the Icon to be blue and it seems to be fine for now :+1: