folder icons where should they be set

[Harald Sitter]

salut mes amis

so this popped up
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352498
and GTK/Gnome rather seems to set the folder icon as part of their
folder-display-component sort of thing (e.g. file open as well as file
browsers and what not). it does so however *without* creating a
.directory file hardcoding a relevant icon now the question is where
this sort of thing needs to be implemented in our tech to get all
folder displaying things to display the correct icon.

being my confused self I am rather clueless as to where the correct
place to implement this is, so any help on this would be very welcome.

thanks

HS