Change file icon action opens file chooser far from icons

[Irios]

All naive (and most savvy) users will find it extremely hard to find icons to customize the appearance of an entry in Nautilus.

When the entry is right clicked, the properties popup shows the present icon as a button that has to be clicked on in order to choose a new icon. Whether that is obvious enough or not is not the problem, however. The problem is that clicking on the button, far from offering a sensible set of icons to choose from, simply opens a file chooser poiniting at the user's home page.

I'd venture than less than 1% of the users will be able to find that the alternative icons hang in a confusing jumbled tree from /usr/share/icons.

Possible solution:
The file chooser should open on the relevant subdirectory of the usr/share/icons tree, if possible in a pictorial view of the icons instead of a dry list of files.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Thanks for reporting. This issue is known upstream; I've added a bug watch to the relevant bug.

[mattismyname (mattismyname)]

I totally agree with this. It's a pretty big issue for usability of the desktop. At the very least it should default to something like /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream closed the bug with that comment "We now show the current directory not HOME."