GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 165294
Let user specify semantics rather then emblems/background
Last modified: 2011-09-12 23:03:15 UTC
See mailing list post: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-January/msg00164.html The idea is that selected both an emblem (Whcih most people select based on the graphic and not the keyword) and selecting a background is a hassle and clumsy. Instead people should select keywords/categories (or semantics as Ryan called it) where each keyword has a background and an emblem. Setting a keyword should be as easy as using the right click menu, and adding a keyword should be pretty simple as well. Also, if keywords actually become meaningfull to the user, unlike emblems (where most users don't care about the keyword but about the graphic), and unlike backgrounds (which don't have an association to something meaningful), then it can be used by some of the more 'futuristic' search engines (like dashboard/beagle)
This sounds really sane. We should work out a proper UI and a keyword theme spec before having this integrated. It may also be interesting to have water marks, as proposed in bug 151099.
See also http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Leaftag.
For the records, '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.
This is largely obsolete now.