[PATCH] Folder icons reflect contents

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:31, David Faure wrote:
> Hmm ok so this breaks if you switch the icon theme on the fly - but is that 
> even possible?

while running the application? sure... though i don't think that's something 
we need to accommodate for at the expense of speed. IMHO.

> Although now I'm puzzled... Icon themes install modified mimetype .desktop
> files??? Or how else can the default icon for inode/directory be changed to
> another name than "folder"? I thought icon themes could only install a
> different folder.png, not change the name of the icon used by a mimetype...

the user can configure a different icon for the mimetype via, for instance, 
the file associations dialog.

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