GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665735
Please re-instate emblems --- they are very useful.
Last modified: 2011-12-07 17:24:24 UTC
This is a enhancement - wishlist request. Nautilus in Gnome3 ditched emblems (and backgrounds) as "not useful". I would just state here my 2 (euro)cents; the emblems where really useful for me and, I think, for a lot more people. I understand the priority of developers, but I make the humble request of having emblems back. thanks anyway, Romano
No, this won't be coming back, surely not that incarnation anyway. See the thread at https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2010-July/msg00023.html for a more detailed explanation of why it's desirable to remove them, and for possible alternative implementations with the same goal (e.g. colored file labels).
Well, I understand the reasoning --- especially if maintaining that code was a burden. Nevertheless, emblems (especially on folders) where a nice, theme-independent way of visually navigate in big directories. A colored label would not be the same. But if the API interface is not to go away, I suppose there will be extension that will use them, or maybe other file managers. Open source, as we know, it's basically a matter of open choice. Thank you anyway to take the time to answer.