Adding new folders

[bilelmoussaoui]

Hello ,
I just wanted to ask if you are going to add some new folders?

• Android
• Backup
• Books folder (alreay reported in Numix base)
• Github folder
• GOG Games
• Movies/Series folder
• Recording folder
• Steam folder
• VirtualBox/Vmware/Gnome Box folder

Thank you for your awesome work !! and i guess this will not be as hard to do as before.

[andia89]

The first two are already there!

[bilelmoussaoui]

@wa4557 i found only Steam folder, can you please give me the filename of the second one?

[andia89]

*-folder-vm.svg

[bilelmoussaoui]

Thank you ;)

[Foggalong]

GitHub is a wontfix because it's a bit too specific - we do have Projects and System folders though :) the other are doable though won't be a priority to fulfil. but same as always we'll accept community contributions for any of them!

[andia89]

I still want to have and do a books folder. But its a tedious work :(

[andia89]

I made book folders cf #79. Since this a hell lot of work I won't make any more :( so if anyone wants to make the movie/series folder fine but since we already have a video folder I suppose this might as well be a wontfix

[bilelmoussaoui]

Well, thank you very much for your hardwork 😸 maybe somebody from the community will want to make the others.

[palob]

Now with the custom colour switching implemented in the script are the coloured svgs still needed?
Couldn't we have the predefined colours defined in a csv and have the script create the svgs?

[Foggalong]

The coloured SVGs are needed for Folder-Color support, so no unfortunately :(

[palob]

Ah OK, but at least when doing new folders the coloured ones could be created using the script.

[Foggalong]

It gets a bit complicated if you want to generate some icons from one colour but not others. You could use the script to generate them in the first place but they'd need to stay in the theme afterward

[palob]

Yep, that's what I meant.

[Foggalong]

ooop! sorry, I gotya :P

[bilelmoussaoui]

I added Recording folder! if you're a student like me, i do use the gnome recording application to record some courses! helps me a lot

[ghost]

Would it be possible to add a GOG Games folder ?

It could be a simple folder with the GOG.com logo on it, much like the Steam folder.

[Foggalong]

Yeah, but same as for the others only by user contribution. Too niche to cover otherwise

[Jacajack]

Hi everyone!
I recently came up with an idea, that I'd be nice to have some folders with mime-type based symbols. For example one for C code, and one for JavaScript, and so on...

This is what I mean:

I made this yesterday, in like 2 minutes, without any guideline, that's why it's ugly

I can create and contribute some of those, if you think the idea makes sense.

Also, what about colors? Is there some script that generates colorful icons available, or should I create mine? (I found some custom-folder-*.svg icons, I assume those are the base ones)

Ok, I found it 😝

[andia89]

I guess new folders are ok (and welcome probably) :) Be warned though this is a LOT of work (I actually started to add a new folder and gave up halfway through it. The problem is, that in order to get them merged you need to provide a lot of different sizes (16px, 22px, 24px, 32px, 48px, 64px) and 6 different styles makes a total of 36 distinct icons each aligned to pixel grid.

Then you also need a lot of different colors (this can be scripted though)

So yeah, new folders are cool, but a lot of work

[Jacajack]

Oh, I didn't realize it's that much work...

Maybe it would be possible to rescale icons with some other script, then only align the symbols in Inkscape? And I believe script for copying symbols over different styles would be useful.

I can try to do this, if that way of developing icons is acceptable ;)

[palob]

You don't need a script for resizing the icons, the folders itself are already present for all sizes :)

[Jacajack]

I meant to say, script for rescaling the new symbols themselves :)

So, what about this?

• Create SVG file with symbol alone
• Run script to rescale symbol to all sizes
• Run another (or even the same one) script to put symbols in the icons
• Use Inkscape to align 36 symbols
• Run script to create different color variations of icons

I think that would make the process a little bit easier, than manually rescaling and copying symbols 36 times.

[Jacajack]

Ok, so I made a prototype...

This is how it works:

• Create single 16x16 symbol, and then optimize it (I used svgo because svgclean was removing my titled group, but that's something I'm going to work on)
  The only requirement is that symbol must be in group with title 'symbol'.
  
  This is the one I used for testing
• Run first script to multiply symbol over SVG files of different sizes
  Like this:
  
  And you get this:
  
• Manually rescale and fit symbols like you would do on folder icon in the each file.
• Run ./paste.pl and it will merge symbols with base folder icons according to paste.json, which looks like this currently:

[
    ["base/48/custom-folder.svg", "symbols/48.svg", "icons/48/custom-folder-test.svg"]
]

• This is result:
  
  Of course if you fit it nicely before, this is going to look better
• Then there are only minor edits left to do, depending on icon size and style

What do you think about this?

Here's code: https://gist.github.com/Jacajack/f1f065c49ce3cae9cf6cc9d85426c9fe
By the way, I'd like to officially announce that I'm going to hell, because I'm parsing SVG files with regular expressions... So, if are Perl programmer, do not go there.

[Foggalong]

If you can get it to work reliably so that the quality is still there, I'd be happy to merge additional folder designs into the repo.

[Foggalong]

Added Android into the list following the closure of #193