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Gnome folder icon

Postby alopez » Apr 19th, '19, 20:53

Hi,

Since some time now, gnome uses any picture inside a folder as the folder's icon. I'd like to go back to the old behavior where folder showed the folder icon. Is there any way of telling that to gnome? I don't want to go folder by folder manually setting the folder icon as the folder's icon.

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Re: Gnome folder icon

Postby doktor5000 » Apr 22nd, '19, 01:38

Maybe it can be disabled via gnome-tweak-tool ? Or maybe you can change it in nautilus settings ?
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Re: Gnome folder icon

Postby alopez » Apr 22nd, '19, 11:28

Thanks. I had already tried both but none of them provides this option.

Nautilus preferences has something that almost works: the ability to choose whether to show thumbnails only for local files, for every file (even remote), or no file at all. But I'm looking for a fourth option (which doesn't exist in the preferences but could exist by tweaking something) to show thumbnails for all local files but not for folders.
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Re: Gnome folder icon

Postby doktor5000 » Apr 22nd, '19, 17:59

Well, I've not found something how to do that. You can try poking at the dconf settings with dconf-editor to see if you find some key to disable thumbnails for directories.
Check e.g. for the keys below /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/inode@directory/
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Re: Gnome folder icon

Postby alopez » Apr 22nd, '19, 20:24

That's what I started to do but using gconf-editor which keeps crashing all the time. I didn't know dconf-editor. Hopefully it will, at least, not crash, which will really simplify my task..

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