Well, with my tweaking hat on, I decided to add some color and “organization” to my /home folder, here is the result:
Added some Folders, Documents, Downloads, Images, Videos and BugReport with Images folder having 3 subfolders, Pictures, Screenshots and Wallpapers (these three in the same blue style as the parent folder).
There is a BugReport folder there so I can add anything related to reporting bugs without messing around /home (Bug reporting is important on Haiku too, so deserves its own folder).
To get this, I did a Python script. Of course I could have used a bash script, but I wanted to check something with Python.
Before anyone asks, if you want to get these:
Folders use different colors to identify the folder by color besides by name. Some might need tunning and improvement, and will be done later on, hopefully.
Added some more, and hopefully, there will be more too:
Regards,
RR
I know that not everybody want to have Documents, Downloads, Images & Videos folders in their home but as they are present on most systems, people are getting used to them. It could be indeed interesting to have the option to create them and maybe to add some queries examples in same time. I.e you could have queries for all kind of LibreOffice docs or PDF docs in Documents, a query looking for pictures by size in Images, etc.
Argh! I didn’t explain it well. I thought that the query examples would be in these folders but they would search for content everywhere.
The idea is to give people a kickstart and help them locate and sort their files. After all, it is the goal of these folders in first place.
Doing this, they would start learning about queries and how powerful they can be.
Yes they are there but at a different location, because I did some “rearrangement” and forgot to update the link. Apologies.
The link to all the icons I have made for Haiku is here:
All are in IOM format. But, now that I see them, I think the ones you refer to are not there. The ones you want are for light background, right? Those that can be reached through the above link are for apps and for dark(black) background Tracker window.
I’ll search for them and upload to Gitlab.
Regards,
RR
[20240924 Edited]
Added those folder icons to that repo too. Now, all the icons I’ve made for Haiku are there.
Regards,
RR
As far as I know, there is no way to install an icon theme. You have to “add” the icons to the Filetype preferences, change attributes to the folders you want to modify… it’s a tedious process… and takes time.
Right now I can´t think of any other way to deal with, though I´m thinking on how to do something about it.
Off the top of my head, i’d imagine your changes would be stored in /boot/home/config/settings/mime_db. So if you zipped that up and unzipped it on another computer …?
? i want to try it
