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Shortcuts icons (simple folder search)

Open glat opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

I've a lots of shortcuts in a folder. I added that folder to "Simple folder search" and I got results. I opened this issue because I manually created shortcuts to a .exe file and I do not see the exe file icon but a simple white page icon. Is it possible to assign to the shortcut icon the related .exe icon, such as Windows do for a shortcut? Thanks

glat avatar Apr 03 '20 10:04 glat

Same issue when having *.url files in a folder which are Windows bookmark shortcut files leading to a website. In Ueli they do not appear with their icon. I used Hain (alternative to Ueli but not continued) and it also shows the associated file icons of a certain file.

femto-code avatar Aug 24 '20 12:08 femto-code

I found a "workaround". Add your folder in "Application Search", and you'll get icons.

glat avatar Aug 24 '20 15:08 glat

I found a "workaround". Add your folder in "Application Search", and you'll get icons.

Thank you very much @glat - your workaround did the trick!

femto-code avatar Aug 24 '20 18:08 femto-code

I still like you request, because I use a lot of portable apps, which tend to have a launcher, and in a subfolder they have the actual application. Now I only want to get the launchers, so I added all my portable apps as "shortcuts" in Ueli, which leaves me without any icons. Also trying to set the .exe as icon doesn't work!

@oliverschwendener Any chance to support .exe as Icon or try to get the icon from the file path automatically? Also a plugin for "PortableApps" would be quite handy, so the subfolders for a PortableApp would be ignored. Could also be done by a max. depth option for the Application Search folder entry?!

bee-eater avatar Jan 29 '22 13:01 bee-eater

Currently I used a script to create a .ico for each .exe and used that in the settings for the Shortcuts.

Extract icon from exe in Powershell

bee-eater avatar Jan 29 '22 13:01 bee-eater