Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.
I was a wee bit tired of staring at default folders in my home folder for the Games, Build, and Books locations, so I ended up making my own icons for each by using outlines of different already-existing icons from applications. Feedback is greatly appreciated.
In case any of you just so happen to use the Qogir icon theme, and that you have these folders in your home folder, the SVGs are available here if you are interested.
Please note that I threw these files together using the scalable version of the folder icon, and that I don't have any dedicated 32, 48, 96 etc versions of these files. On top of that, I only have the folder versions of these icons, not symbolic. SVGs are difficult (due to my lack of experience), and so I had to cheat by targeting each individual colour, rather than making an outline and then messing with transparency like the rest of the icon set. Needless to say, if anyone has good inkscape tips, please let me know!
I wish more icon packs had these sort of additional icons.
I wish there were a few more default home directories like games and books. It would make me much more likely to use them overall.
For sure, it just makes more sense doing this than lumping everything in the documents folder. It feels like the current defaults are not enough anymore, having more distinct directories will make this more up to date.
This exactly. It feels like everything gets thrown in documents and then it just becomes one big mess. Game saves, coding projects. I've even seen some apps put their configs in Documents.
"Ah fuck it, slap a dot in front of it and shove it in the home folder"
--Way to many devs.