Set custom color to specific files and folder names

Alexander Schwinn @alexxcons said:

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 !

Alexander Schwinn @alexxcons said:

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

Alexander Schwinn @alexxcons closed a related bug:

*** Bug 15208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Kirill Afonin said:

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.

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?

Alexander Schwinn @alexxcons said:

@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.

Theo Linkspfeifer said:

Same feature request for Nautilus: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/817

added 2. Feature label

added 5. Visual Appearance label

I was wondering about the implementation for this.

While looking at the gtk docs I found -

GtkTreeView has method get_column
GtkTreeViewColumn has method add_attribute (which has a cell renderer as an argument)
GtkCellRenderer has property cell-background-rgba

But if we are to do this then won't this take effect for all the cells within that column ? How can we get access to the individual cell renderers of each row in the column ?

How can we get access to the individual cell renderers of each row in the column ?

I suppose you will need to (re)build the TreeView, using a different cell renderer-attribute for the cells in question. At least on a quick search I did not find a way to extract the currently used cell renderer .. though I could be wrong.

As well see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63129899/how-to-set-the-background-color-in-a-gtk3treeviewcolumn

I would also like to suggest a different view of this problem.

We could create a certain number of selected colors as the label colors (say 10). The user will select one of these colors to label a folder/(file too?). A new column (label column) is created which will house the corresponding label. This new column can be sorted (this will bring together same colored folders/(files too?) ).

I think this sortable color column would be a good feature (?).

We could create a certain number of selected colors as the label colors (say 10)

Would be fine for me .. though I suppose most simple will be to just use a color picker, like you did in your MR.

(file too?)

Yes, it should be possible to as well color files, not only folders.

I think this sortable color column would be a good feature (?).

Indeed, that sounds like a good idea ! Would be less intrusive as coloring the whole row and for sure it makes sense to sort by color, once you colored many files.

mentioned in merge request !226 (merged)

mentioned in commit 4a36de47

Fixed by above commit, thanks to @Elessar1802 , to be released in thunar 4.17.10

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Set custom color to specific files and folder names

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I reopened an old request for this feature and will close this one as duplicate.