HOWTO: Make folder icons use Folder.jpg (Like Windows XP My Music folder does)

[AFU_Ra]

The newer versions of nautilus as available in Karmic don't store the metadata in xml files anymore. Instead nautilus now uses the new gio abstraction layer to give files a "metadata::custom_icon" attribute. This attribute contains a filename of a picture that should be used as the file icon.

I changed the python script that was posted before to use gio attributes. I have only tested this on karmic(Nautilus 2.27.4).

I've tried your script with Nautilus 2.28.0 on Karmic but it didn't work for me . Do you have any suggestions? This is what i get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "custom_icon_gio.py", line 48, in <module>
    main()
  File "custom_icon_gio.py", line 42, in main
    gioFile.set_attribute_string("metadata::custom_icon", sd[1])
gio.Error: Error setting file metadata: No such file or directory

[qos]

Try mine ...

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
import os
import fnmatch
from urllib import quote

def main():
    parser = OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options] folder [folder2 ...]",
                          version="%prog 0.1")
    parser.add_option("", "--names", dest="names",
                      default="[Ff]older.[Jj][Pp][Gg]",
                      help='specification to match image filenames [default: "%default"]')
    parser.add_option("-R", "--recursive", dest="recursive", action="store_true", default=False,
                      help="set icons for folders recursively")

    (options, folders) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv)
    folders = folders[1:]

    if not folders:
        parser.error("no folders specified")

    noquote = "()'*"

    for folder in folders:
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(folder):
            print root, "..."
            subdirs = []
            for d in dirs:
                images = fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(os.path.join(root, d)), options.names)
                if images:
                    path  = os.path.join(root, d)
                    image = os.path.basename(images[0])
                    os.system('gvfs-set-attribute "%s" metadata::custom-icon "%s"' % (path, image))
                else:
                    print "no image found for %s/%s" % (root, d)
            if not options.recursive:
                dirs[:] = []
    print "done."

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[linux4all]

Tanks qos!!!!! this works well for me! hope some day nautilus will do this by default or at least give the optiom...

C.

[Patapalo]

Try mine ...

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
import os
import fnmatch
from urllib import quote

def main():
    parser = OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options] folder [folder2 ...]",
                          version="%prog 0.1")
    parser.add_option("", "--names", dest="names",
                      default="[Ff]older.[Jj][Pp][Gg]",
                      help='specification to match image filenames [default: "%default"]')
    parser.add_option("-R", "--recursive", dest="recursive", action="store_true", default=False,
                      help="set icons for folders recursively")

    (options, folders) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv)
    folders = folders[1:]

    if not folders:
        parser.error("no folders specified")

    noquote = "()'*"

    for folder in folders:
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(folder):
            print root, "..."
            subdirs = []
            for d in dirs:
                images = fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(os.path.join(root, d)), options.names)
                if images:
                    path  = os.path.join(root, d)
                    image = os.path.basename(images[0])
                    os.system('gvfs-set-attribute "%s" metadata::custom-icon "%s"' % (path, image))
                else:
                    print "no image found for %s/%s" % (root, d)
            if not options.recursive:
                dirs[:] = []
    print "done."

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Don´t work for me.

This what i get:

Usage: albumart [options] folder [folder2 ...]

albumart: error: no folders specified

[qos]

I cleaned up the code, and fixed a potential bug.
So, give it a new try...

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
import os
import fnmatch
from urllib import quote


def setattrib(root, directory, names):
    path   = os.path.join(root, directory)
    images = fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(path), names)
    if images:
        image = os.path.basename(images[0])
        os.system('gvfs-set-attribute "%s" metadata::custom-icon "%s"' % (path, image))
    else:
        print "no image found for %s/%s" % (root, directory)

def main():
    parser = OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options] folder [folder2 ...]",
                          version="%prog 0.2")
    parser.add_option("", "--names", dest="names",
                      default="[Ff]older.[Jj][Pp][Gg]",
                      help='specification to match image filenames [default: "%default"]')
    parser.add_option("-R", "--recursive", dest="recursive", action="store_true", default=False,
                      help="set icons for folders recursively")

    (options, folders) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv)
    folders = folders[1:]

    if not folders:
        parser.error("no folders specified")

    noquote = "()'*"

    for folder in folders:
        setattrib('', folder, options.names)
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(folder):
            for d in dirs:
                setattrib(root, d, options.names)
            if not options.recursive:
                dirs[:] = []
    print "done."

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[user333]

Why don't you just edit an icon theme?