[Geany-devel] File type icons?

Colomban Wendling lists.ban at xxxxx
Thu Oct 14 23:08:38 UTC 2010


Le 14/10/2010 16:36, Colomban Wendling a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I realized that in the "documents" sidebar each and every files have an
> icon, but they all have the same, no matter what. I had a little time
> and I decided to play a bit with the idea of having file-type based icons.
> 
> Such icons could be displayed at a few places:
> 
> 1) In the Documents sidebar: there is already icons and it would
> probably ease to find a particular item (if different filetypes are
> mixed, of course). Anyway I think it's better to have the "right" icons
> rather than always using the same. (capture joined)
> 
> [...]
> 
> And finally, the current points that are problematic:
> When sidebar_openfiles_add() is called, it's very likely that the
> document's filetype isn't set yet, so no icon (or a default one). It
> only appears when an opened file is renamed, since it updates the entry
> and the filetype is set at this time. Not sure how to fix this, but I
> haven't investigated yet.
After a small investigation I managed to find a quite simple way, so
there's a patch!
Needs the 0001-Add-filetype-icon.patch patch (in another mail from this
thread), there's
0001-Add-filetype-specific-icon-to-the-document-list-side.patch joined.

Regards,
Colomban
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