Ubuntu
nautilus package

shortcut folders don't show custom icons

Bug #86976 reported by David Prieto on 2007-02-22

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	Expired	Low	gnome-bugs #410897
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

This is the situation:

- I have a "music" folder on my home directory, where I keep music albums, a folder for each.

- For easier handling, each of these subfolders have a "folder.jpg" file inside, with the album cover. I have alt+clicked each of them, and set this jpg as their custom icon. Therefore, my music folder looks like this:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/8267/pantallazomusicabo1.png

-So, I created a shortcut on my desktop leading to this music folder. It would be logical for this folder to look exactly like its original, but this is what it looks like instead:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/2896/pantallazomusica1gu7.png

As you see only a handful of folders display their custom icons, and it's the ones I have set by hand. The rest show the usual folder icon. They should have inherited the custom icons from their "real" counterparts, but they didn't.

Revision history for this message

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-02-22:

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410897

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-02-23

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unknown → Unconfirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-06-25

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Unknown → Low

Revision history for this message

Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote on 2012-03-07:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 86976 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2013-04-25

Changed in nautilus:
status:	New → Expired

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2013-04-25:

upstream closed the bug with this comment:

"I cannot reproduce this on nautilus 3.6. It works as expected: custom icons set
on the target folder subfolders are shown when I open the symlink.

It's worth noting that nautilus now opens the target path when a symlink is
double-clicked. But even if I manually enter the symlink path into the location
entry, the custom icons are shown as expected."

since we have 3.6 in raring, closing the bug