GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145524
Show emblems from Nautilus
Last modified: 2012-02-20 19:27:53 UTC
I also noticed that labels applied to folders/files are not displayed in the file selector. Again, this would mimick nautilus's display of folders and aid visually navigation of a list of folders. IE: I can find my 'code' folder quickly in a large list of folders because of the labels applied to it. I realize that part of this might be the smaller icon size makes it hard to apply labels, but I'm sure that nautilus handles this already somehow (maybe reducing the number of labels displayed (if > 1) as well as reducing the size.
Hmmm, how does Nautilus figure out which emblems are defined for a file? We'd probably need to add some APIs to GtkFileSystem and implement them in GtkFileSystemGnomeVFS.
Retitling for clarity.
Created attachment 47892 [details] "no consistency"
It will also be very usefull to quickly locate folders (documents,pictures,etc...)
Adding myself to CC list. What is the status on this one? As I see it, this is a rather serious breach of the spatial paradigm - In real life, if I'd attach a red sticker to a folder, I'd also expect the red sticker to always be visible, no matter if I grab the folder from my cabinet or find it lying around somewhere... (Yes, it's a kind of lame simile, but I hope the point gets across) The attachments by Oll say it all, really! There was talk on the lists about furthering the use of icons and emblems in GNOME to make it even easier for people to use the spatial metaphors. Maybe I'll post to the list to revive that talk, but fixing this bug would be of great help in achieving the use of emblems as a standard in file management. Would be great to have in time for GNOME 2.14 ;-)
Work on it then
*** Bug 321577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i've post Bug 321577 which has been marked as a duplicate of this bug; there i've put the following mockup: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=54817&action=view it really pretties gtk file chooser imho! and i've found also this: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2004-June/msg00030.html it has some code to get the emblems of the any file. it is in c#; basically, it reads "/home/YOU/.nautilus/metafiles/file:%2F%2F" + gnome_vfs_escape_string (path_to_file) + ".xml" and searchs for the "keyword" xml node. if this keyword is "cool", than it means it uses the "cool" emblem. GETTING THE PICTURE: it should read /home/YOU/.nautilus/browser.xml and get the value of the following node... here's the path: <categories> -> <category name="emblems"> -> <emblem _display_name="cool"> in this node, we see this field: filename="cool". so this is the file to get from the current theme: "cool". grab its picture and put in x,y(0,0) alongside the picture of the folder/file.
Requested in https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/33822 as well.
This would be very useful for me as well. I place emblems on directories to allow me to spot them quickly. Unfortunately, the save and load gtk+ file dialog does not show these emblems and causes me to spend extra time actually reading ;-)
'Backgrounds and Emblems' have been removed from nautilus 2.32: http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=915e5523947fe049e06f9bd8574760f6765e8ad7 See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2010-July/msg00023.html for reasons. Closing as WONTFIX.