Folder icon name and location

Published by David Vignoni on April 18, 2007 under icons

Dolphin, next KDE 4 file manager, looks for folder icon at “mimetypes/inode-directory.png”. Follow current icon identikit:
  • Name: inode-directory.png
  • Address: oxygen/…/mymetypes/
  • Profession: folder icon
All the special folder icons are located under “places” directory and use a different kind of name having “folder-” as prefix… like “folder-important.png” or “folder-yellow.png”.

So my question is: Shouldn’t the regular folder icon be located under “places” directory as well and be called just “folder.png”?

Looking at freedesktop icon naming specification seems like I’m correct (see Table 11. Standard Place Icons names). Then, the new identikit for the regular folder icon would be:
  • Name: folder.png
  • Address: oxygen/…/places/
Just to spice up this post a bit the new folder also comes in many different tasty flavors:

And of course most of all the special directories are already on svn too.

Missing are:
  • home directory
  • packages directory
  • binaries/software directory
If you think you have a proposal for a special directory that I haven’t thought of yet, feel free to let me know ;)