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Set custom color to specific files and folder names
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Naga44 2017-03-31 12:35:20 CEST
Hi,

First, thanks for the amazing job you are doing !

I searched if it was possible to set colors individually to files / folders names background on Thunar, but couldn't find it.

Does it exist ? If not, it was "whispered" to me by someone who find it really useful to classify files (and got the idea from Mac ;) ).

It does look like this (on Mac, sorry, sorry...) : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC-QJnskOEA in video 
or 
https://cdn.tutsplus.com/mac/authors/legacy/Josh%20Johnson/2012/07/13/findertips-4.jpg on a screenshot

Could it be an enhancement ?

Have a nice day and thanks again !

Ben
Comment 1 alexxcons editbugs 2018-01-24 15:41:27 CET
Sorry for the late reply!

For costom backgrounds in thunar try this tutorial:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749685
If there should be problems, please reopen this bug! ( Or first use some search engine )

Regarding the feature-request "colored file labels". For sure possible, looks nice.
However alot of work required to add such a thing. So due to a lack of manpower not in sight for the near future. Please open a separate bug for it !  

... if you want to speed up the process ... patches are always welcome !
Comment 2 alexxcons editbugs 2019-03-22 13:44:35 CET
reopened, since there seems to be some demand. Even if there is no manpower to implement such a feature curently, duplicates can be closed against this bug
Comment 3 alexxcons editbugs 2019-03-22 13:47:55 CET
*** Bug 15208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Kirill Afonin 2019-03-22 14:50:22 CET
alexxcons  editbugs 2019-03-22 13:47:55 CET
Well, if you dont want to use the workaround, I am sorry.

Thunar does not have such a feature currently.

I reopened an old request for this feature and will close this one as duplicate.
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Well, then why was the 'changes the emblem' section of the folder added if this section does not work at all? How did you start working on it, yes?
Comment 5 alexxcons editbugs 2019-03-22 21:24:38 CET
@Kirill Afonin
Your bug was about the "color of a folder", not about emblems.
Emblems work fine for me .. they dont work for you ? If so, please open a separate bug for it.
Comment 6 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2019-10-30 16:37:37 CET
Same feature request for Nautilus:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/817
Comment 7 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 23:29:59 CEST
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Bug #13470

Reported by:
Naga44
Reported on: 2017-03-31
Last modified on: 2020-05-26
Duplicates (1):
  • 15208 I can not change the color of the folders.

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Xfce Bug Triage
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