[Digikam-users] Icons for left sidebar - can I customise them easily?

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Chris G:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48:11PM +0100, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Chris G:
> > > I'd really like to be able to use a small set of icons for the albums
> > > in the left sidebar.
> > >
> > > For example I'd like to be able to indicate the film type (i.e. B&W
> > > negative, colour negative, transparency) with different icons.
> > >
> > > I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
> > > folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
> > > problems:-
> > >
> > >     It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.
> >
> > It works quite well with 16x16 icons, but you need an icon theme
> > installed that has 16x16icons included.
>
> Can you explain that a little further please.
>
> As installed (digikam 0.9.2 on Fedora) if I click on any image's "Set
> as Album thumbnail" they *only* work with the Sidebar Thumbnail Size
> set to 22x22 or larger.  With the Sidebar Thumbnail Size set to 16x16
> I just get the default folder icon in the left album tree.
>
> What's an "icon theme"?  I don't run KDE but have the KDE libraries.

I'm sorry, I did not understand your wish to put your own icon into the folder 
icons: That is not possible with 16 bits (but it seems not worthwhile either, 
except for the color you will not be able to distinguish anything).

 Gerhard
> >
> > >     I'd need to put my special icon image in every album.
> > >
> > > Is there anything I'm missing or should I add a wish to make this more
> > > possible/easy?
> >
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