D17167: Provide a method of assigning custom default icons for non-XDG dirs

Nathaniel Graham noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Thu Dec 6 05:11:45 GMT 2018


ngraham added a comment.


  In D17167#368727 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D17167#368727>, @dfaure wrote:
  
  > This feels *very* special cased. Where does this automagic ends? Any why only in $HOME? We'll keep adding entries here forever... Why don't people use a .directory file for this?
  >  If ~/Games is a de-facto standard, whoever creates it could add a .directory in there. If it's not, then that makes my point.
  
  
  Well, it //is// very special cased. :)
  
  But I think the better question is whether it's useful or nice to have. The whole point of this patch is to gain the ability for KIO to automatically set appropriate default icons for common-but-not-XDG directories that people might create. Sure, people can already set custom icons for those folders themselves if they want. It's just a few clicks. This patch simply provides a mechanism for KIO to make it automatic.
  
  Have you ever had one of those moments when you go to do something that you expect to be a manual, multi-step process but the software anticipates what you're going to do and does it for you? It's those little "aha, I love that they thought of this!" moments that make people fall in love with software. That's all this is trying to help facilitate. :)

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D17167

To: ngraham, #frameworks, cfeck, broulik, dfaure
Cc: kde-frameworks-devel, michaelh, ngraham, bruns
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