I'd like to give the main folders I have in my home directory specific icons.

openSUSE already gave the ~/Documents folder an icon and the Desktop, both them using folders assigned by KDE 4.2, so if I change icon theme those icons change as well.

I'd like to do the same kind of thing for my ~/Videos, my ~/Web Pages folders etc. Now making their icons something defined by KDE would be great, but of course it doesn't include enough icons for a folder for every possible type of data someone might have so I guess I have to create images myself if it's even possible to give a folder that "icon" in KDE.

It seems icons in KDE are PNGs, with an image for every size, (I'm accustomed to the Windows icons which are files that contain the images, including different color palettes, within) so even if it's possible to define an icon for a folder, using would I have to make PNGs for every size (16x16 32x32 64x64 128x128) or am I stuck with KDE-defined folder icons like "Documents"?

Which specific folders do you need? There are quite a few available.

What is the difference in creating multiple sizes in one file and multiple sizes in multiple files?

You could create only the 128x128, and it will be scaled as needed.

To assign a new icon, right-click the folder, select Properties, and then click the button with icon on it. You'll be presented with the icon browsing dialogue.

Cheers!

ivan wrote:What is the difference in creating multiple sizes in one file and multiple sizes in multiple files?

You could create only the 128x128, and it will be scaled as needed.

To assign a new icon, right-click the folder, select Properties, and then click the button with icon on it. You'll be presented with the icon browsing dialogue.

Cheers!

I didn't know you had to create only one PNG, that eliminates the need to keep multiple images, either in one file like Windows or multiple files like KDE seems to use in icon sets.

And there's a UI for doing it, even better!

Thinking about it some more, I guess I'd like some sort of "emblems" feature, where the user selects an icon, either out of those provided or an external image, and that icon gets inset over the generic folder icon, with both changing, if the user chose one provided by the system, with the icon theme: User creates a folder called say "KDE stuff", selects a KDE icon from the existing Select Icon dialog like you guided me to, but checks a box "Set this icon as an emblem" and then the KDE icon appears over the folder, and if the user changes his/her icon theme to say Tango, the KDE icon and the regular folder icon automatically become Tangoized, making a "KDE stuff" Tangoized "icon". This probably isn't possible but it'd eliminate the need for extra icons based on Oxygen that are on kde-look

Presently, dolphin/konqueror do not support emblems for folders (which nautilus file browser does).
You might want to take a look at this: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=74731
^^ This would be a collection of folder icons with emblem like overlapping icons.

I know it's not in KDE yet, I think it'd be nice to have

In that case, I'd recommend you to wait for a few more days. We (KDE Forum team) are coming up with something that'd be a good place for nice ideas like these

I recall reading about support for icon emblems in the icon cache mechanisms in KDE a few months (years?) ago. If I remember correctly it was on planetKDE, so maybe you can find that blog post with google.

The underlying system ( KIcon ) in kdelibs supports emblems. It requires that the names of the the emblem icons be passed to it when creating the icon, which Dolphin / Konqueror are not doing currently.

Angel Blue01 wrote:I'd like to give the main folders I have in my home directory specific icons.

openSUSE already gave the ~/Documents folder an icon and the Desktop, both them using folders assigned by KDE 4.2, so if I change icon theme those icons change as well.

I'd like to do the same kind of thing for my ~/Videos, my ~/Web Pages folders etc. Now making their icons something defined by KDE would be great, but of course it doesn't include enough icons for a folder for every possible type of data someone might have so I guess I have to create images myself if it's even possible to give a folder that "icon" in KDE.

It seems icons in KDE are PNGs, with an image for every size, (I'm accustomed to the Windows icons which are files that contain the images, including different color palettes, within) so even if it's possible to define an icon for a folder, using would I have to make PNGs for every size (16x16 32x32 64x64 128x128) or am I stuck with KDE-defined folder icons like "Documents"?

:-O Right click the folder. Access Properties (login as root first) than change the icon by clicking it and choose.

Logging in as root is not required, as you should not be giving folder icons to system level folders.
You are able to freely give icons to folders under your Home directory as a normal user. If you do them under your home directory as root, then you will not be able to change the directory icon in the future as a normal user.