Portable file icons

[admin]

As a side note, I don't know if it's voluntary but we must now prefix bracketed drives e.g. [FG] with a * for PFI to work, so a working line (in XYv12.30.0207) to color subfolders should now be e.g.: ...

Little glitch, next version will correct it.

[Filehero]

@Filehero
The colored folders icons are from the "places\nuvola-style" folders in the Open Icon Library. There seems to be 8 different colors. I could repost them (I think the open license allows it, should check) but I guess I'll make my own more subtle (less saturated) ones before anyway...

Tanks for the source - and keen to use, erm, see your pastella icons.


Cheers,
Filehero

[Filehero]

Don,

regarding the Customize File Icons-dialog: is a double-click on an entry really supposed to open a file-input dialog?

12.30.0207


Cheers,
Filehero

[admin]

Sure, to select an icon source. Why not?

[Filehero]

Sure, to select an icon source. Why not?

It's ok. I'm asking because "usually" .... Nope, after a quick recheck I'm mistaken. I thought a double click would "usually" just activate the entry's edit mode. All is fine (*)


Cheers,
Filehero


*: Nope, don't have Sky.

[admin]

I decided to use a different dialog ("File Open" instead of "Browse for Folder").

*: Nope, don't have Sky.

Neither me

[Filehero]

*: Nope, don't have Sky.

Neither me

I'll switch to HR-INFO web radio.

Sorry for OT...

[admin]

*: Nope, don't have Sky.

Neither me

I'll switch to HR-INFO web radio.

Cool, bin dabei!

[Enternal]

Well unfortunately there's too many icons right now to deal with. However I can show you which icons is in my arsenal
...
The one you see right now are all my favorite ones so I always have them out ready to be used.

Very nice icons he has - mind to share them?

Ah they're just icons from FatCow and GOM Media Player. The only issue is that as a default, FatCow ships all their icons as PNGs so I had to convert them to ICO. Also, they don't have the 16x16 and 32x32 icons combined. So I ended up downloading them manually from iconfinder.com which have them combined. Anyway I just attached those same ones I'm using right now to this post if you want them.

Folders & Files:
EXTS - FatCow File Extension Icons (Internally 16x16 & 32x32)
FatCow - (Internally 16x16 & 32x32)
FatCow32 - Same As Above But Internally 16x16 & 24x24 For User Buttons. Thanks to kunkel321:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 718#p78547
Lunascape.ico
LunascapeSetup6.ico
Stellarium.ico

Anyways, PFI sure have come a long way! It's so useful and so awesome! Plus, it's a time killer!

Icons.zip

(1.05 MiB) Downloaded 145 times

[admin]

Are all those icons free to use?

[Enternal]

Are all those icons free to use?

All of them except the Lunascape, Stellarium, and GOM since I extracted those.

EDIT:
License for FatCow Icons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
License for Stellarium Icons
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.scienc ... devel/1186
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

[Filehero]

Anyways, PFI sure have come a long way! It's so useful and so awesome! Plus, it's a time killer!

Icons.zip

Wooowww!! Thanks heaps, Enternal!

Again, scripting will have to wait another day....


Cheers,
Filehero

[FluxTorpedoe]

@Don
Thanks for the * glitch fix!

@Filehero & others
Here's a mini pack - nothing fancy. For the playful-seeking spirits, you'd rather use the already mentioned colorful series of Fatcow or OpenIconLibrary.
It sure doesn't look like it, but I spent an indecent amount of time just to get 3 usable tints... and I'm still not really satisfied. (And I finally gave up to saturation.)

FXT_Folder_Icons.png (4.35 KiB) Viewed 2612 times

For what it's worth, my goals were:
- to keep an clean and uncluttered display [kinda... Fail], as I feel too much visual contrast (too many colors, details) is counterproductive.
- to keep them even between them [Nearly there], so they would still all feel like the same kind of regular folders somehow (e.g. green always seems brighter by default, and red too brutal).
- to give them enough strength to also instantly differentiate tabs with their isolated folder icon [Working] - which is why I had to bring back saturation...

Well, enough babble. Here's a very small pack with Green/Blue/Red folders and 2 "Incoming" (for the reasons above, I use the lightest one). I only kept 32bit color icons, with sizes 16/24/32/48/96 (though I only really tested 16x16).

Mandatory note: They're all based on the default system (WinXP) folder icon, so they remain the property of their owner, blabla...

EDIT: Slightly changed the Green icon (to make it just a teeny weeny bit less striking). Was too "GrannySmith"-y for my taste...

[admin]

I like them!

[Borut]

+1. Many thanks FluxTorpedoe! Wonderful.

Thanks also to Enternal - using some of those now too!