http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7855/
Rationale
I thought this idea had already been suggested, but I guess I'm wrong. I've read some suggestions for Ubuntu to organize its user files as Mac does in its Finder, so the nitty-gritty of the operating system is hidden from view. I don't think Ubuntu needs to do that, but I do think it would be a great idea to color code folders.

Ubuntu's current folder-marking system isn't great.
GNOME's Emblems are a neat idea but don't provide much functionality to basic users. For one thing, it takes too long to access the Emblems tab for someone to micromanage many folders by choosing an emblem for each folder.
For another, in Ubuntu's current default theme, most emblems are of the same color and merely have different designs. If you're quickly browsing through many folders, this won't allow you to identify the right folder as fast as a folder of a different color would.


[82 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #7855


]]> en-us Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:59:54 +0000 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:19:30 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7855/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:08:10 +0000
Pink for porno.]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:48:40 +0000
My advice is: fix emblems and allow folder colors, all of this should be based on the implementation of system icons in gnome.

Plugging old brainstorms:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5501/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6010/

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:46:40 +0000 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:36:20 +0000 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:26:17 +0000 a) Nice screenname.
b) That could certainly be one solution, but I don't know if that works with Gnome's current emblem manager. Isn't each emblem just an image that's overlaid in the corner of the folder? So it wouldn't actually change the folder's color... but it could still be useful if there were emblems that were just circles of different colors.]]> Sat, 17 May 2008 20:04:46 +0000