On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:10 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 12:55 +0200, John Keller wrote: > > > Removing emblems is a little unfortunate for me personally because I > > used them as a fast way to customize folders in my home with nicely > > drawn artwork. But I can understand the reasons why, and they really are > > much more appropriate as part of a larger vision of metadata and > > keywords, as you mention. > > Yeah, as you say there's still the option of using a custom icon > altogether for that purpose...we could also eventually implement > something like colored labels, as Finder does.
Yes, we need a good method of allowing the marking of files and folders. Coloured labels are one option. They're nice because they're quick and simple to use. I wonder whether there are any other options we could investigate though? > > Is there any plan to make the custom icon option more user-discoverable? > > Right now, you need to know that you can click the icon in the > > properties dialog box. Not bad if you click everywhere or read the help, > > but otherwise... > > Ideas are welcome on how to make that more prominent in the UI; maybe a > tooltip over the icon in the properties view? Or a label beneath it? Custom icons are OK, but they're fairly labour intensive, and there are some issues with the current UI. Also, they have a similar problem to emblems - they're predefined by the system, and they're used by some apps. Ideally, we'd have a separate customisation facility which is only used by users. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
