[Thunar-dev] Thunar not picking up custom icon folder color

[Go Linux]

I have recolored the gnome icon set to blend with the Devuan ASCII (Stretch) desktop theming. But there are some glitches that are currently being discussed on the Xfce forum. The index.theme is posted there as well as a link to download the DarkPurpy icon set:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47454

AFAICT the generic folder icon is picked up everywhere except in Thunar, even the desktop. In Jessie, Thunar does see the specific directory icons for home, documents etc. But the generic folder/directory icon reverts to gnome. In ASCII Thunar only picks up the the colorized Home icon.

Xcfe is Devuan's default desktop and I want it to look beautiful. Does anyone have a clue why Thunar is doing this? It would be terribly inefficient to have to have to resort to switching out the icons in the complete Gnome icon theme (well over 10mb). What am I missing.

Thanks,

golinux

[Go Linux]

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On Sun, 2/18/18, Go Linux <***@yahoo.com> wrote:

Subject: Thunar not picking up custom icon folder color
To: "Xfce file manager" <thunar-***@xfce.org>
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2018, 6:10 PM

I have recolored the gnome icon set to blend
with the Devuan ASCII (Stretch) desktop theming.  But
there are some glitches that are currently being discussed
on the Xfce forum.  The index.theme is posted there as
well as a link to download the DarkPurpy icon set:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47454

AFAICT the generic folder icon is
picked up everywhere except in Thunar, even the
desktop.  In Jessie, Thunar does see the specific
directory icons for home, documents etc.  But the
generic folder/directory icon reverts to gnome.  In
ASCII Thunar only picks up the the colorized Home icon.

Xcfe is Devuan's default desktop and I
want it to look beautiful.  Does anyone have a clue why
Thunar is doing this?  It would be terribly
inefficient to have to have to resort to switching out the
icons in the complete Gnome icon theme (well over
10mb).  What am I missing.

Thanks,

golinux

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Here are some screenies of the problem on ASCII. Three different users have confirmed that Thunar does this. Same thing happens on Jessie.

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Hope the visuals are helpful.

Thanks again,

golinux

[Markus]

Thunar, in contrast to many other file managers, is using the
"inode-directory" icon for plain folders - which the theme you linked to
is missing.

You can simply execute this in every of the "places/" subdirectory of
the theme to create the necessary links:

ln -s folder.png inode-directory.png

If the theme is not picking it up, you can refresh the cache via:

gtk-update-icon-cache /path/to/DarkPurpy

(will need root permissions if system path obviously)


Best regards,

Markus

Post by Go Linux
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47454
AFAICT the generic folder icon is picked up everywhere except in Thunar, even the desktop. In Jessie, Thunar does see the specific directory icons for home, documents etc. But the generic folder/directory icon reverts to gnome. In ASCII Thunar only picks up the the colorized Home icon.
Xcfe is Devuan's default desktop and I want it to look beautiful. Does anyone have a clue why Thunar is doing this? It would be terribly inefficient to have to have to resort to switching out the icons in the complete Gnome icon theme (well over 10mb). What am I missing.
Thanks,
golinux
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[Go Linux]

Thank you for the timely response. However, I am not quite understanding something. The inode-directory.png file is already present in the gnome icon theme. Why is it not being "inherited"? Does that mean that the other links in gnome will also be broken ie "not inherited"? I realize this question goes beyond Thunar. Just hoping you might be able to shed some light on it.

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On Mon, 2/19/18, Markus <***@web.de> wrote:

Subject: Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar not picking up custom icon folder color
To: thunar-***@xfce.org
Date: Monday, February 19, 2018, 1:35 AM

Thunar, in contrast to many other file managers, is using the "inode-directory" icon for plain folders - which the theme you linked to is missing.

You can simply execute this in every of the "places/" subdirectory of the theme to create the necessary links:

ln -s folder.png inode-directory.png

If the theme is not picking it up, you can refresh the cache via:

gtk-update-icon-cache /path/to/DarkPurpy

(will need root permissions if system path obviously)


Best regards,

Markus

Post by Go Linux
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47454
AFAICT the generic folder icon is picked up everywhere except in Thunar, even the desktop. In Jessie, Thunar does see the specific directory icons for home, documents etc. But the generic folder/directory icon reverts to gnome. In ASCII Thunar only picks up the the colorized Home icon.
Xcfe is Devuan's default desktop and I want it to look beautiful. Does anyone have a clue why Thunar is doing this? It would be terribly inefficient to have to have to resort to switching out the icons in the complete Gnome icon theme (well over 10mb). What am I missing.
Thanks,
golinux
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