option to change folder colors #89
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i'm sorry, I kept looking and found this file browser extension, at least its not 1 folder at a time. https://github.com/costales/folder-color |
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That set of scripts are only usable for specific file managers. There is a plan to make a way to change folders colors globally. Each file named |
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Hello. This is the quick and dirty script I have made to replace my folder colors. You just have to replace highland with the color of your choice, give it execution privileges, and launch it from ~/.icons/gruvbox-plus-icon-pack-5.5.0/places/scalable . Note that bookmark folders do not have color variants. Click to expand#!/usr/bin/env bashrm certificate-server.svg |
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Thank you. The script is lovely. |
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Hi, Here is a more bash-ish script I've made to replace folders color. Details
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
export FOLDER_COLOR="${FOLDER_COLOR:-"blue"}"
if [[ -f "folder-${FOLDER_COLOR}.svg" ]]; then
for i in $(realpath "*-${FOLDER_COLOR}*.svg"); do
filename="${i##*/}"
ln -sfn "${filename}" "${filename/-${FOLDER_COLOR}/}"
done
echo "Done."
else
echo "Invalid color: ${FOLDER_COLOR}"
echo "Please peak one of:"
find "${0%/*}" -type f -iname "folder-*-*.svg" | cut --delimiter "-" --fields 2 | sort | uniq | paste -sd " "
exit 1
fiUsageFOLDER_COLOR=violet ./folder-color-chooser.shIf all goes well, it simply prints ‘Done’, if not, it prints a list of available colours and exits with an error code: FOLDER_COLOR=coffee ./folder-color-chooser.sh
Invalid color: coffee
Please peak one of:
black blue citron firebrick gold green grey highland jade lavender lime olive orange pistachio pumpkin purple red rust sapphire tomato violet white yellowEnjoy it! |
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My bad, I forgot 2 little lines after dealing with options 🫣 DRYRUN="${DRYRUN:-0}"
VERBOSE="${VERBOSE:-0}"I updated the script in my previous comment. Sorry about that 🙇 |
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I've used updated script and it doesn't work. |
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So sorry 🫣 The handling of boolean variables in bash confused me. It's fixed (again). And this time I double-checked and it works fine for me. The changed lines are : - if [[ ${DRYRUN} || ${VERBOSE} ]]; then
- echo "${filename} → ${filename/-${PLACES_COLOR}/}"
- fi
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- if [[ ! ${DRYRUN} ]]; then
- ln -sfn "${filename}" "${filename/-${PLACES_COLOR}/}"
- fi
+ if [[ ${DRYRUN} -eq 1 || ${VERBOSE} -eq 1 ]]; then
+ echo "${filename} → ${filename/-${PLACES_COLOR}/}"
+ fi
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+ if [[ ${DRYRUN} -eq 0 ]]; then
+ ln -sfn "${filename}" "${filename/-${PLACES_COLOR}/}"
+ fiDo you want a PR for this script? How about placing it in a |
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Script works properly now. There is one issue -
Let's polish it a little bit first, if You don't mind. |
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Oh! A special case. Let's deal with it. if [[ ${DRYRUN} -eq 1 || ${VERBOSE} -eq 1 ]]; then
case "${filename}" in
"bookmarks-${PLACES_COLOR}.svg")
echo "${filename} → folder-bookmark.svg"
;;
*)
echo "${filename} → ${filename/-${PLACES_COLOR}/}"
;;
esac
fi
if [[ ${DRYRUN} -eq 0 ]]; then
case "${filename}" in
"bookmarks-${PLACES_COLOR}.svg")
ln -sfn "${filename}" "folder-bookmark.svg"
;;
*)
ln -sfn "${filename}" "${filename/-${PLACES_COLOR}/}"
;;
esac
fiScript updated in previous comment 😉 |
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I've made several test and it looks like it works perfectly. I have a few questions and suggestions:
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We could define a static set of colours, but calculating them is more robust and future-proof. Who knows, maybe a high-contrast colour or something will be added in the future; maybe someone will be happy to add their own colour to the set and use this script seamlessly!
Something like that?
Besides the advantages you mention for authors, I find it reassuring, as a user, to be able to know what will happen with a destructive script before running it for real.
Fair enough.
It gives me an idea! Some programs allow multiple levels of verbosity. One just have to call It would produce this: ❯ ./places-color-chooser.sh -n❯ ./places-color-chooser.sh -v
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Done.❯ ./places-color-chooser.sh -n -v -v
bookmark-plasma-missing.svg → bookmark-missing.svg
bookmarks-plasma.svg → folder-bookmark.svg
folder-plasma-activities.svg → folder-activities.svg
...
folder-plasma-yandex-disk.svg → folder-yandex-disk.svg
user-plasma-desktop.svg → user-desktop.svg
user-plasma-trash-full.svg → user-trash-full.svg
user-plasma-trash.svg → user-trash.svg
Nothing done.
It will take a bit more thought to work out how to follow the symbolic links to extract the destination colour. But it's an excellent idea!
Yes, all unknown arguments are silently ignored. In your example, the result will be the same as if you ran the script without arguments. I think I could find a way to raise an exception if an unknown argument is found.
Locally, I've placed this script in a But I'm working from a clone of the git repository, and have linked If the icon pack is installed from Arch, or Debian, chances are that the chosen pack is installed in this |
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I've just created a pull request (#145) with all your requests satisfied. Each item has its own commit. It will be easier to revise and iterate on it 😉 |
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Hello. I just installed these icon pack, its great thank you. I have an issue trying to change the folders, in gnome the default color for the folders are blue. How can I change the folders to the golden ones found inside the icon pack?
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