launcher icons

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:54:37 -0500
Kim Briggs <patiodragon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/18/06, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Whenever I create a new launcher, if the icons presented are not suitable
> > I click on the browse icon, but every icon in other directories is greyed
> > out no matter whether it's a xpm or png. How do you pick an icon from
> > another directory? They are also presented in list form rather than the
> > thumbnails that show in the original directory.
> > Bug? Feature?
> >
> 
> there may be a better way to do this, but what I have done it the past is
> find the icon I want and then
> 
> #sudo cp  /usr/share/groovy/image.png    /usr/share/pixmaps
> 
> and if necessary (?)
> 
> #sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/pixmaps/image.png
> 
> then I can use it.
> 

   Yeah, that works, but shouldn't the icon browser allow you to pick from elsewhere? and showthem as thumbs rather
than a list, and not grey them out ?
Thanks

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Cheers

Frank

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