# New File Icon **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 1, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256 "2007-07-01T03:29:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/1 "2007-07-01T03:29:10Z")
The default file icon for ruby is a bit ugly. Compare it to Python’s file icon to see what I mean. Are there any plans to change this for 1.9, and if not is there a way to submit an alternative? ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/2 "2007-07-01T03:34:34Z")
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007, Peter M. wrote: > The default file icon for ruby is a bit ugly. Compare it to Python’s > file icon to see what I mean. Are there any plans to change this for > 1.9, and if not is there a way to submit an alternative? Uh. Ruby doesn’t have a default icon. They’re just text files. Whatever icon you’re seeing is coming from your OS/window manager/what have you. Talk to whoever made that 🙂 Ben ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/3 "2007-07-01T07:45:48Z")
If you’re on Windows, I believe the icon comes from the One-Click Ruby Installer and not Ruby itself. You can always associate it with another one if you want in the File Type Associations dialog. ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/4 "2007-07-01T13:54:45Z")
Robert O. wrote: > If you’re on Windows, I believe the icon comes from the One-Click Ruby > Installer and not Ruby itself. You can always associate it with another > one > if you want in the File Type Associations dialog. Oh, I know that but that would only change it for me. I’d like to be able to submit a new file icon for anyone who’s using Ruby. ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/5 "2007-07-01T18:34:46Z")
Talk to the guy that maintains the One-click Ruby Installer. I’d love to see a beautiful gem symbol instead of the ugly creature that’s on my laptop’s ruby files 🙂 Aur ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/6 "2007-07-01T19:11:52Z")
If you get in touch with the admins, I’d be happy to design an icon for it! John J. ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/7 "2007-07-02T16:42:23Z")
John J. wrote: > If you get in touch with the admins, I’d be happy to design an icon > for it! > > John J. Sure, I’d love to get some nice new icons! Please contact me off list (curt at hibbs dot com). Curt ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-file-icon/108256/8 "2007-07-01T17:31:39Z")
On Jul 1, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Peter M. wrote: > You can’t really. On OS X, for example, the icon reflects the application designated to open the file-type, it can of course be changed any time (the default app to open with) But changing icons is just worth little effort for files. I’d suggest an icon utility that lets you run themes on your machine’s icons.