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While I like the many Oxygen-based icons for folder types on kde-look, it occured to me that perhaps there's a better way to create the same effect.

I'm referring to icons that are unique to a folder and help identify it when browsing through folders, such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop etc. KDE already includes a few of the most common. There are a lot of folders one might want, depending on one's personal file organization structure.

Currently someone who wants a new folder icon needs to create a folder icon, which is a static PNG, in the GIMP possibly starting in Inkscape with an SVG. KDE makes it easy to set an icon for a folder, but it is still a fixed thing. If the user changes their iconset that icon remains the same.

I'd like to see the option of setting a secondary icon as an "emblem" (borrowing a Gnome term). This can be either a system-defined icon from KDE or some third-party PNG, just as one sets an icon for a folder today.

Possible workflow: In the Select Icon dialog, for folders, enable a button labled "Set an emblem" that would open a second Select Icon dialog. After selecting the primary (first) icon and the secondary (emblem) icon, the emblem is displayed "on top" of the primary icon, much like the Downloads icon is a folder with a down arrow "overlayed" on it. Thereafter, if the user changes the iconset, and the emblem is from a KDE icon defined by the iconset, the emblem will change as well to whatever the equivalent icon is in the new iconset.