Standard icon settings vs. default icons from Explorer

[Lefteous]

The icon settings have become quite complex. Now we have to choose between associated, standard icons and the independent default Explorer icons setting.

Can you explain how these settings are related and if yes translate this into the UI?

[Lefteous]

Seems nobody can explain it...

[petermad]

Hmm, I don't understand your question - I find it pretty obvious what the setting: "Show default folder/file icons from Explorer" does

[Lefteous]

Hmm, I don't understand your question - I find it pretty obvious what the setting: "Show default folder/file icons from Explorer" does

I wasn't asking about the meaning of the single option but how it's related to the already existing options.

[ghisler(Author)]

It's unrelated: It's about the DEFAULT icons for files/folders, e.g. the icon for files with no association, and the folders with no special icon defined via desktop.ini.

[Lefteous]

It's unrelated: It's about the DEFAULT icons for files/folders, e.g. the icon for files with no association, and the folders with no special icon defined via desktop.ini.

So files 'with no association' are standard icons - aren't they? That's what I ment.
In other words. When I select 'only standard icons' it's the new default icon checkbox which controls how these standard icons are displayed.

So why not
1) Place the setting near the standard icon setting?
2) Make it more explicit by telling the user how it looks when not using Explorer icons.

[ghisler(Author)]

The radio buttons on that page control something else: They control which icons will be loaded: The top option loads as many as possible. The second doesn't load EXE/LNK icons, but loads icons for file associations (e.g. txt -> notepad). The "only standard" only uses default icons, e.g. a generic file and a generic folder icon.

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)
Yes exactly - all setting including standard and above will use standard icons and this options configures how standard icons look. But maybe it's not a good idea to configure an option which you didn't choose explicitely (but implicitely).