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Post by GNU2Linux on Jun 1, 2024 19:48:19 GMT
I wanted to add a Games directory in my home folder. Easy enough, but of course a normal plain directory with no design on it stands out like a sore thumb next to the default directories Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, and Videos which all have some icon design incorporated into them. I right clicked on Games and saw one could apply Emblems, but it's pretty unsatisfying since the emblem is partially obscured and seems like it's hanging off the edge of the Games directory, not a part of it. I thought maybe I could just rename Public to Games which is what I do on Linux Mint, but in Moksha when I did that the design on that directory disappeared completely so that is not a solution either.
So is this how emblems are supposed to work or is there some workaround I'm not thinking of to get a prettier icon centered on my Games directory?
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Jun 2, 2024 4:43:40 GMT
I am not at all familiar with this emblem stuff, so this is just a guess.
On Mint, are you using XFCE edition with thunar? Or perhaps cinnamon edition with nemo? Nemo is a nice file manager and fancier than thunar, maybe it can do what you want; bodhi doesn't require any specific file manager, you could install nemo (and even remove thunar) if you want. Of course, without thunar you will loose one bodhi specific feature that ylee added - you can right click on an image and make it wallpaper. But you can always configure wallpaper a couple other ways in Bodhi too.
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Post by GNU2Linux on Jun 2, 2024 5:44:46 GMT
I am not at all familiar with this emblem stuff, so this is just a guess. On Mint, are you using XFCE edition with thunar? Or perhaps cinnamon edition with nemo? Nemo is a nice file manager and fancier than thunar, maybe it can do what you want; bodhi doesn't require any specific file manager, you could install nemo (and even remove thunar) if you want. Of course, without thunar you will loose one bodhi specific feature that ylee added - you can right click on an image and make it wallpaper. But you can always configure wallpaper a couple other ways in Bodhi too. I use the default file manager that comes with Moksha on Bodhi, Thunar 4.16.10. The emblems that are available from one of the properties tabs seem like an obvious solution to customize the look of a directory in the GUI file manager. It's odd to me that the emblem is mostly hidden and off center as you can see in the image.
On Mint with the Cinnamon desktop I use Nemo file manager. I didn't think to try that on Bodhi. Maybe that's an option. But I still think the emblems are pretty awkwardly integrated in Thunar in Moksha if they are indeed working as intended and as shown in my screencap.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Jun 2, 2024 6:49:41 GMT
You're probably right, but I bet it's just the way thunar works. Not that it doesn't make it a bodhi issue too, we chose thunar as default file manager and slightly customized it as mentioned above.... I'll play with emblems a bit tomorrow and see what I can learn, but if making it better requires complicated changes to thunar, probably we won't do it. But lemee check it out. But absolutely nothing wrong with using nemo with bodhi if you prefer it.
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Post by xpistian on Jun 2, 2024 7:49:07 GMT
This might help. There seems to be no easier solution for Thunar. forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=323757The particular emblem on your games folder looks especially bad because it has the same colour as the folder and no outline. Had it an outline or a different colour it wouldn't look like it was behind the folder. |
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