GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 203955
Custom icon/text color for Mail folders
Last modified: 2019-03-11 11:11:12 UTC
Right now I have a ton of folders that all look the same, would be nice if I could specify a custom icon, so my "Gimp developer" folder would have a small Wilber head, and my "pdev" could have a Pointy-Haired-Boss icon and my ximian folders could have a monkeybutton or something. So Folder Properties could have a icon selector button. Ettore says it is cool and I think it is a bug that it is not implemented yet. But we still fight over that :o)
Setting this for 1.2.
Oops, I meant 1.1.
Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to evolution@ximian.com, not the bug. Luis
Moving rescheduled 1.2 bugs to future en masse; sorry if your bug didn't make the cut.
And also it would be very suitable to have possibility to change folder's text color. Onw of the cases is when one have a lot of folders and don't have different icons.
nice, indeed.
*** Bug 319701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think the colorisation would make more sense, just like in the calendar. While custom icons would be "fun" I think the colors might solve the problem just as fine. It might even be useful in searches, colors would add extra info as to which folder each message in the results is in. However, I have no idea if the list widget supports this.. :) - maybe it's hard to do?
Moving this to Mailer. I'm +0 on the idea; no plans to address it myself.
I've been working on something similar for evolution-rss. I could probably create a small plugin for custom icons.
Off-the-cuff idea, but maybe somehow integrate this with Epiphany's or Firefox's favicon cache, as those would be the type of icons I'd want to use for folders.
Created attachment 374209 [details] [review] proposed patch This adds a new "Appearance" tab into folder Properties, where one can override the icon of the folder and the text color of it used in the folder tree on the left of the Mail view. The text color is used when the folder is not selected (which makes sense and it's done by the widget itself, out of evolution hands). Choosing color which makes text invisible in current or future theme used by the user is not a problem of Evolution, but of the user him/her-self :)
Created commit [1] in evo master (3.33.1+) [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/commit/4e123e6f51