Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] custom netatalk folder icon?
From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Fri Mar 13 1998 - 16:38:45 EST
Perhaps a sun would be able to add support for external storage
(post-compilation) of default icons? I think that it would be a good
feature.
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Alistair Riddell wrote:
> The icons are defined in etc/afpd/desktop.c and icon.h. desktop.c
> contains the 'demon' icon and icon.h contains the various generic volume
> icons.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what format they are in, but bear in mind that if you
> look at an icon resource in ResEdit there is normally a small and large
> version of an icon at each of three colour depths (1 bit, 4bit, 8bit).
> There is also a transparency mask at both sizes which IIRR is common to
> all the colour depths.
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Richard Mann wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to permanently switch the generic
> > icon that is created, when a file with no resource
> > fork is copied to a netatalk folder?
> >
> > The attached method is ok for folders, since there are
> > relatively few of them (though it would be nice to
> > have a global way of changing them, too.) But it would
> > be great to be able to set the generic file icon,
> > so that files copied to the netatalk volume will take
> > on that icon.
>
> --
> Alistair Riddell - BOFH
> IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh
> Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594
>
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