folder icons where should they be set

[Harald Sitter]

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Thomas Lübking
<thomas.luebking at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Freitag, 11. September 2015 00:16:35 CEST, Harald Sitter wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> http://www.linfo.org/etc_skel.html
>
> Guessing the "correct" folder icon by the directory name/path is rather
> wonky.
> I don't have ~/music or ~/images but somewhen (ages ago) created ~/MyFiles
> and put subdirs for specific types there.
>
> So i rather have ~/MyFiles/Images than eg. "~/Images" or "~/My Images" or
> "~/MyImages" or "~/Meine Bilder" - which is localized and that's the next
> problem of "guessing" icons from directory names.
>
> A distro could possibly add downstream patches to dolphin and/or KFileItem
> to match their autocreated paths (because they also patched useradd instead
> of using /etc/skel?) but I doubt there's any way to do that upstream without
> adding a *very* long and hackish list of path/icon mapping (ending up
> incompatible with the hackish(?) list in gnome and totally not covering
> other desktop environments.
>
> => simply follow the present standards to
> a) create a $HOME structure
> b) define directory icons etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas