Le April 8, 2008 05:13:58 am Anne Wilson, vous avez écrit :> On Monday 07 April 2008 17:21:44 Nicolas Ouellette wrote:> > Hi there,> >> > I'm new to this list, and I'm not where where to send this mail, cos' I> > don't know if my problem is distro specific or not, so don't be too harsh> > on me... :)> >> > I use KDE 3.5.9 on Kubuntu 8.04 for AMD64.> >> > When I plug a USB device in my computer, wether a digital camera, a usb> > pendrive, or PDA, the icons all appear on my desktop as generic> > usbpendrives. (see screenshot : actual_kde_media_icons.png). Now, I would> > like to change these icons to reflect what's plugged in, i.e.: a digital> > camera icon for my digital camera, an ipod icon for my mp3 player, a usb> > key icon for my usb key, and a memory card icon for my PDA's memory card> > (screenshot:> > wished_kde_media_icons.png). Simple, no? As you see, only the digital> > camera icon is changed to the "wished" one. I would like to do the same> > for all USB icons.> >> > I know that in GNOME, it's possible to simply change the icons directly> > from the desktop (I did it yesterday...), as shown in the screenshot> > gnome_media_icons.png.> >> > In KDE, it doesn't seem to be so simple. Right clicking on a Desktop icon> > and changing its icon will not work, nor while navigating in media:/.>> From the manual ->> Below these options you can see a list titled Show Icon Previews For. The> KDE desktop has a preview feature for many file types, including HTML> files, images, PostScript® and PDF, sound, web archives (if you have the> appropriate Konqueror plugin installed) and text files.> if you enable previews for one of these, files of that particular file type> will not be represented by standard icons on the desktop, but will instead> be shown as miniature previews. On slow computers, the previews can take> some time to show up, so you might not want to enable this feature.> Finally there is Display device icons:.> On some operating systems (Linux® and FreeBSD, so far) KDE can dynamically> display icons for each mountable device you have available. This could be> CD-ROM drives, floppy disk drives, or network shares.> If you enable this, you can choose what kind, if any, of these devices you> would like quick access icons to be displayed for.>> To me, that suggests that it may not be possible to do what you want. I> suspect, though, that the real problem is the way the devices communicate> their info. Obviously gnome is reading it, so it is there, but it must be> in a form inaccessible to kde. I say this because I have some pen drives> that do at least give the name of the device, but some appear as a> pen-drive of that name, and some as a camera of the correct name.>> Guesswork, but it may give you some ideas to work on.> Anne
Thanks for your advice. I found that I could fiddle with the *.desktop files in /usr/share/mimelnk/media/, but changing the icons in one of those files doesn't help me much.
I thought that I could add more .desktop files in this directory (for example, ipod.desktop, pda.desktop, and so on...), but I'm not sure how to do this. I guess I'll have to sitck with the actual behavior and hope it will be implemented in the future.
Thanks anyway!
Cheers,
-- Nicolas OuelletteB.A., Philosophie, DESSECRegistered linux user #368073___________________________________________________This message is from the kde mailing list.Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
