# Create custom icons for folders

**URL:** <https://discuss.kde.org/t/create-custom-icons-for-folders/36490>\
**Category:** Brainstorm\
**Tags:** dolphin, icons\
**Created:** [July 2, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/create-custom-icons-for-folders/36490 "2025-07-02T12:52:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ostfriese4](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/c89c15/32.png) [@ostfriese4](https://discuss.kde.org/u/ostfriese4)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/create-custom-icons-for-folders/36490/1 "2025-07-02T12:52:43Z")

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Hello,  
I like the feature to change the icon of folders but, in my opinion, there are not enough choices. So I’m wondering if the icon couldn’t generated automatically. For example

```auto
color=accent
folder-icon=firefox

```

in the .directory file would generate a icon of a folder using the accent-color with the firefox-icon on top. Mainly I would think this could be used with symbolic icons.

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**Author:** ![the-entropyst](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/the-entropyst/32/24331_2.png) [@the-entropyst](https://discuss.kde.org/u/the-entropyst)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/create-custom-icons-for-folders/36490/2 "2025-09-06T09:06:01Z")

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Most folder icons (in breeze al least) are aware of system wide accent color. It could be fesable to make individual folders having both a custom color and icon.

There is just thee thing that need to be concidered :

- Is it too dificult to add this in Dolphin ? (i don’t know since i’m not a dev)
- What are we doing of the existing icon folder that just have colors (eg. folder-yellow) ?
- Is it [freedesktop.org](https://www.freedesktop.org/) compliant ?