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Re: Feature request: SVN managed folders should be able to use the folder icon from desktop.ini file

From: Hannes Restel <hannes.restel_at_isst.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:14:01 +0100

Thanks for answering!

Andy Levy schrieb:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:36, Hannes Restel
> <hannes.restel_at_isst.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'd like to propose a feature request that is 'nice to have' but it is
>> very useful to me.
>>
>> For some folders in my Windows environment I have defined a
>> 'desktop.ini' file for displaying an individual folder icon instead of
>> the default Windows folder icon.. That file is saved directly into the
>> folder along with an Icon file.
>>
>> When checking out this folder as a SVN repository, the indiviudalized
>> folder icon is replaced by the standard Windows icon
>> I think the reason for this behaviour are the tiny SVN status symbols at
>> the botton of the folder icon.(e.g. the red "!" or the green checkmark).
>>
>
> Icon overlays are just that - overlays. Note that for arbitrary files,
> as long as they're in a WC, they get an overlay regardless of what
> they are. It has nothing to do with the underlying icon itself.
>
I Thought so! This is why I wonder that my individualized icon
disappears and the standard icon appears!
>
>> So using my individualized folder icons instead of the standard Windows
>> icon by the Windows Interface for SVN would be great!
>> Is that possible at all?
>>
>
> Wouldn't putting desktop.ini and the corresponding icon file be
> required to make this happen?
This is exactly what I have done. But after the checkout my icon
disappeard. So I thought that the SVN Windows Explorer integration might
be responsible for thatchange. So somehow my icon and the tiny overlay
icons seem not to be compatible... Very strange indeed....
> And if so, why not do it yourself on
> directories that you want this to happen on, instead of layering it
> into the client by default? What happens if the path to the file
> holding the icon is different on another user's computer than on yours
> (like D:\program files vs. c:\program files)?
>
No, no: the icon I use is delivered in the folder itself as an .ico file.
> This sounds more like file/environment metadata which, like local
> filesystem ACLs, is not handled by Subversion at all - intentionally.
>
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So as I understand it, SVN Windows Explorer Integration already has got
the feature I want.
The fact that my icon - as defined in the 'desktop.ini' - is ignored
(i.e. replaced by the standard icon), is not a result of SVN..

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