Bug 431437

Summary:	[Feature] Make Breeze compatible with Folder Color
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	flyos
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kainz.a, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description flyos 2021-01-11 13:52:20 UTC

CONTEXT
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Folder Color is a way to change quickly change the colour of folders:
http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org/

There is an extension also for Dolphin:
https://github.com/jsmitar/dolphin-folder-color

A few themes have support for such large folder colours, including all "special" folders that colourised, see e.g. Papirus:
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme

FEATURE INTEREST
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Having access to such large panel of colours, including all the "special" (image, document, etc.) is extremely nice to set up a more mnesic-friendly hierarchy were typical folders (and folder structures) can be easily muscle-memorised using a combination of special icon and colour to easily spot each folder. It vastly increases the possibilities for the user to set up such easy-to-spot folders, while current Breeze is only limited to EITHER special folders OR colours.

IMPLEMENTATION
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I am in no way expert in how Breeze works, but as far as I understand, I believe this feature could be relatively easy to implement. Breeze can be made able to dynamically apply colours to folders:
https://store.kde.org/p/1160457/

As, for example, Papirus does with a script to generate the folder icons it ships to be compatible with Color Folder:
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-folders#script-usage

CAVEATS
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To be sure, I am not proposing Breeze to follow Color Folder, nor Dolphin to implement "dolphin-folder-color" by default (though both would be nice, of course). My main point here is more humbly to extend the folder colours to match e.g. Papirus extant in variety.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-01-11 16:10:15 UTC

As a global thing, this would be fixed by fixing Bug 395569; marking as a duplicate of that.

On a per-folder basis, you can already change the colors to whatever you want: Right-click on folder > Properties > click on icon > choose new icon. Among those icons are colored folder icons that you can use.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 395569 ***

Comment 2 flyos 2021-01-11 16:28:59 UTC

I was not clear enough it seems.

I did not mean for this to be a global, as Rainbow Folders are, so it is a per-folder basis indeed. As such, I don't think this bug is a duplicate of #395569 (although the two subjects are technologically related I believe, since the existence of Rainbow Folders means it's possible to generate coloured icons automatically relatively easily).

I know there are coloured folders icons in Breeze, but what is missing are coloured "special" folders.

Maybe an example will be clearer. What I mean is that Breeze is missing the equivalent of the following Papirus (which I am currently using) icons for example:
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/blob/master/Papirus/32x32/places/folder-deeporange-development.svg
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/blob/master/Papirus/32x32/places/folder-grey-private.svg
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/blob/master/Papirus/32x32/places/folder-bluegrey-templates.svg

Having access to those icons allows me (us!) to make a "visual code", for example a colour for some folders that repeated in my hierarchy (say "script", "report", etc.) which I have to detect rapidly using a combination of such colour and their associated icons/emblems ("dev" for script and "document" for report, for example). I can then associate other colours to other kinds of folder, while still distinguishing among them using their "emblems" (by this, I mean the little icon within the folder icon).

Now, I realise this might be too niche, I can accept that, I just thought the technology to generate such a wider panel of icons seem relatively easy to implement (maybe I am wrong on that), and it would be a nice extension to Breeze.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-01-11 17:53:54 UTC

Oh I see, you want to be able to tint folders (whatever their base icon happens to be) with a color. That's tracked in a general way by Bug 37300.

I'd like that too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 37300 ***

Comment 4 flyos 2021-01-11 18:38:13 UTC

Yes, it would solve the core issue, although the proposal here was less elaborate: just directly ship those coloured icons. But leave the link to the duplicated bug if you want, it's sensible enough!

Thank you for your time.