Well, I’ve now been a LL user for a few days and am mostly enjoying the experience.
I particularly like the object oriented inheritance model that LL uses, but…
From what do folders inherit their properties? I want to set a transparent background for all folder icons, but I can’t figure out how to do it. The global folder settings include things like icon style, where I have chosen stacking, but they don’t include the icon background.
I thought that folders would inherit their other properties from the desktop they are created in, but if I set a transparent icon background for the current desktop, newly created folders don’t use it.
I’m working around this by making one folder the way I want it and then copying and pasting its style to all of my other folders, but I’d obviously prefer to just make this setting at the highest level and then have it automatically inherited.
What am I missing?
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In folder options, you can save to a style and then apply it to other folders. not sure if that is what you’re needing though.
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Are you talking about the folder’s icon? Or the icons inside the folder?
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I’m talking about the folder’s own icon. By default, newly created folders have a black icon background. I want to set the alpha to 00 for full transparency, but I’m having to do that for each folder at the moment.
It’s not a big deal. Once I’ve finished manually replicating my Nova desktop, i won’t need to make many new folders. It’s just this nagging voice in the back of my head that is telling me that there must be an easier way.
I hate using something that I don’t fully understand. 🙂
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If you go into edit mode from your desktop, with nothing (no icon or other item) selected, the changes you make become the defaults.
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That’s what I thought, and I could have sworn that I had already tried that, but I have just tried it again to make sure.
Setting the default icon background colour here works for newly added apps, but not for new folders.
I tried modifying scale, too, as a second test, and that is also ignored by new folders.
Is there anything else that controls inheritance of folder properties from the desktop?
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