Icons for left sidebar - can I customise them easily?

[Chris Green]

I'd really like to be able to use a small set of icons for the albums
in the left sidebar.

For example I'd like to be able to indicate the film type (i.e. B&W
negative, colour negative, transparency) with different icons.

I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
problems:-

    It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.

    I'd need to put my special icon image in every album.

Is there anything I'm missing or should I add a wish to make this more
possible/easy?

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[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Chris G:

> I'd really like to be able to use a small set of icons for the albums
> in the left sidebar.
>
> For example I'd like to be able to indicate the film type (i.e. B&W
> negative, colour negative, transparency) with different icons.
>
> I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
> folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
> problems:-
>
>     It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.

It works quite well with 16x16 icons, but you need an icon theme installed

that has 16x16icons included.

Gerhard
>
>     I'd need to put my special icon image in every album.
>
> Is there anything I'm missing or should I add a wish to make this more
> possible/easy?



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[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48:11PM +0100, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Chris G:
> > I'd really like to be able to use a small set of icons for the albums
> > in the left sidebar.
> >
> > For example I'd like to be able to indicate the film type (i.e. B&W
> > negative, colour negative, transparency) with different icons.
> >
> > I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
> > folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
> > problems:-
> >
> >     It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.
> It works quite well with 16x16 icons, but you need an icon theme installed
> that has 16x16icons included.
>

Can you explain that a little further please.

As installed (digikam 0.9.2 on Fedora) if I click on any image's "Set
as Album thumbnail" they *only* work with the Sidebar Thumbnail Size
set to 22x22 or larger.  With the Sidebar Thumbnail Size set to 16x16
I just get the default folder icon in the left album tree.

What's an "icon theme"?  I don't run KDE but have the KDE libraries.

> Gerhard
> >
> >     I'd need to put my special icon image in every album.
> >
> > Is there anything I'm missing or should I add a wish to make this more
> > possible/easy?
>
>
>
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[Gerhard Kulzer-3]

Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Chris G:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48:11PM +0100, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > Am Wednesday 30 January 2008 schrieb Chris G:
> > > I'd really like to be able to use a small set of icons for the albums
> > > in the left sidebar.
> > >
> > > For example I'd like to be able to indicate the film type (i.e. B&W
> > > negative, colour negative, transparency) with different icons.
> > >
> > > I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
> > > folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
> > > problems:-
> > >
> > >     It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.
> >
> > It works quite well with 16x16 icons, but you need an icon theme
> > installed that has 16x16icons included.
>
> Can you explain that a little further please.
>
> As installed (digikam 0.9.2 on Fedora) if I click on any image's "Set
> as Album thumbnail" they *only* work with the Sidebar Thumbnail Size
> set to 22x22 or larger.  With the Sidebar Thumbnail Size set to 16x16
> I just get the default folder icon in the left album tree.
>
> What's an "icon theme"?  I don't run KDE but have the KDE libraries.

I'm sorry, I did not understand your wish to put your own icon into the folder
icons: That is not possible with 16 bits (but it seems not worthwhile either,
except for the color you will not be able to distinguish anything).

 Gerhard

> >
> > >     I'd need to put my special icon image in every album.
> > >
> > > Is there anything I'm missing or should I add a wish to make this more
> > > possible/easy?
> >
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> >
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[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:12:01AM +0100, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> > > > I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
> > > > folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
> > > > problems:-
> > > >
> > > >     It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.
> > >
> > > It works quite well with 16x16 icons, but you need an icon theme
> > > installed that has 16x16icons included.
> >
> > Can you explain that a little further please.
> >
> > As installed (digikam 0.9.2 on Fedora) if I click on any image's "Set
> > as Album thumbnail" they *only* work with the Sidebar Thumbnail Size
> > set to 22x22 or larger.  With the Sidebar Thumbnail Size set to 16x16
> > I just get the default folder icon in the left album tree.
> >
> > What's an "icon theme"?  I don't run KDE but have the KDE libraries.
>
> I'm sorry, I did not understand your wish to put your own icon into the folder
> icons: That is not possible with 16 bits (but it seems not worthwhile either,
> except for the color you will not be able to distinguish anything).
>

No problem, it's always difficult to explain and understand these
things in a text only medium.

You're right that there's no point in putting actual images into the
16x16 icons but that isn't really my requirement.  I just want to put
'identifier flags' there - e.g. a three coloured folder icon to
indicate colour pictures in the album and a grey folder icon to
indicate B&W images in the album.  Maybe one could have the three
colours in a different order to indicate positive and negative colour
films.

The 16x16 folder icon used by digikam seems to be one I have elsewhere
on my system in the 'crystalview' icons directory, there are lots of
other folder icons available there which, if I could use them, would
be ideal.

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[Dotan Cohen]

> I'd really like to be able to use a small set of icons for the albums
> in the left sidebar.
>
> For example I'd like to be able to indicate the film type (i.e. B&W
> negative, colour negative, transparency) with different icons.
>
> I could almost get what I want by putting a suitable image in the
> folder and selecting that as the folder icon but this has a couple of
> problems:-
>
>    It doesn't work with the 16x16 icons, only with the larger ones.
>
>    I'd need to put my special icon image in every album.
>
> Is there anything I'm missing or should I add a wish to make this more
> possible/easy?
>

Please see this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216637

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