Folder Color

How to add more folder colours to Ubuntu 14.04?

Asked by Navin Talati on 2014-08-26

I installed Folder Colours through following command lines:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/folder-color
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install folder-color

The resultant gave 12 different folder colours (Black, Blue, Brown, Cyan, Green, Grey, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, mWhite, Yellow). Out of these one (Orange) is the default of Ubuntu OS.

Could more colours be added into this? How?

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Solved by:: Navin Talati

Solved:: 2015-05-22

Last query:: 2015-05-22

Last reply:: 2014-10-23

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costales (costales) said on 2014-08-28:

Hi! You can, but it's a semi-manual process:

Create new icon colors.

Add new icons here (be careful with the file/folders names, use same as the others): /usr/share/folder-color/media/

and in /usr/share/nautilus-extension/folder-color.py, append the new colors:
self.COLORS = {'black': ("Black"),
'brown': ("Brown"),
'cyan': ("Cyan"),
'blue': ("Blue"),
'green': ("Green"),
'grey': ("Grey"),
'orange': ("Orange"),
'pink': ("Pink"),
'red': ("Red"),
'purple': ("Purple"),
'yellow': ("Yellow"),
'white': ("White") }

Best regards :)

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Navin Talati (n-m-talati) said on 2014-09-02:

Sir,
What I understood from your reply is as under:

(1)Add new icons here (be careful with the file/folders names, use same as the others): /usr/share/folder-color/media/

Here, I could see different 9 folders in each colour's folder (like Desktop, Doccuments, Download, Folders, Music, Pictures, Public, Templets, Videos) and each with .svg extension.

Here, I tried to create a new folder for new colour (e.g say 'rainbow' ) but It does not allow. T think there will be specific COMMAND-LINE which one shyould apply in Terminal.

As I am not a technical person, I request to suggest that for any specific colour (i.e. other then those included).

(2).....and in /usr/share/nautilus-extension/folder-color.py, append the new colors:
self.COLORS = {'black': ("Black"),
'brown': ("Brown"),
'cyan': ("Cyan"),
'blue': ("Blue"),
'green': ("Green"),
'grey': ("Grey"),
'orange': ("Orange"),
'pink': ("Pink"),
'red': ("Red"),
'purple': ("Purple"),
'yellow': ("Yellow"),
'white': ("White") }

Here do you mean that I should add the new colour's name in the same format/style/structure after ...'white': ("White")... and then put the ..... }..... symbol at the end?

If any specific command-line is required, please suggest it.

Please guide for the above TWO steps as requested and oblige.

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costales (costales) said on 2014-09-02:

Hi! :) Don't worry, in a Terminal this 3 commands:

sudo cp -r /usr/share/folder-color/media/grey /usr/share/folder-color/media/rainbow

sudo gedit /usr/share/nautilus-extension/folder-color.py
And add this line:
'grey': ("Grey"),
'rainbow': ("Rainbow"), <<<< Be careful! Same spaces in the left as grey and as orange.
'orange': ("Orange"),

nautilus -q ; nautilus

You have to see the new "rainbow" ;) But it'll be as grey because it's the same color. You have to overwrite the .svg files.
Cheers!