Folder color not working in Caja List View

Hi gravy45!

> Virtualbox running Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Beta 2. All upgrades, updates and dist-uprgrade applied. Running Compiz as window manager. A reboot did not change the behavior.

Same here :)

> The folder color isn't changing in "List View", and the fly-out menus aren't setting correctly. See attached screenshots.

What is "fly-out" menus?
I'm afraid that the "List View" is overwriting any icon configuration because a Caja behavior.
I tried this (see screenshot.tar.gz file): Change the Pictures folder icon as a Terminal icon. You can see the Terminal icon in Icon & Compact views, but not in List view.

I can't reproduce your menu problem. I tried with compiz & marco, and it worked :O
Please, take a look to this video: https://youtu.be/SjbEwyTYXwE

Thanks for your feedback!
Best regards!

I found an icon issue in your screenshots. I created this bug for the icons in Compact view:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/folder-color/+bug/1446319

Hi @costales, by fly-out menus I mean the ones that come out when you right-click. As shown in your video.

Apparently, the problem with the fly-out menus went away after Beta 2 because it isn't occurring now in with the 20150417.1/Final/RC whatever it is meant to be called. I call it confusing!

Other than that, I still see where the folder colors do not change in list view, but do change in compact and icon views.

I can't go to a low enough resolution to duplicate the icon issue you pointed out but it makes sense to me.

> As shown in your video.

Perfect then :)

> I still see where the folder colors do not change in list view, but do change in compact and icon views.

Yes, It's a Caja problem. It's appearing in the "Open" browse too, but it's not a Folder Color issue :( I can't do anything about that.
FYI: Folder Color is setting the icon for a folder, just that, if a program or extension is not reading it, I can't do anything.

> went away after Beta 2

I tested it before and it worked right too. I'm thinking it was about Compiz :O (?)

Thanks for your feedback! I keep this bug opened after the release. Maybe more users could give us more feedback. Is OK for you?

A hug gravy45!

Are you saying that the "Affects" should add Caja ?

> Are you saying that the "Affects" should add Caja ?

I'm not sure, probably will be a library instead.

As test, I tried Nemo file browser and it shows the colors and custom
icons (as the terminal) in the List view too.

Hi! Any news about this issue after the release? :)
Can I close it, then?
Best regards!

Unfortunately, it is still the same. No color on list view. I hope you don't close it. It is listed as affecting ubuntu-mate but beyond that I wouldn't know where to categorize it. Hopefully one of the MATE people will chime in here soon. I was going to take a look at the Caja code but if I recall it is C and I don't know C other than enough to read certain small parts of it.

@gravy45: I was talking about this :P "fly-out menus weren't setting correctly up"

About the no icon (it's not a color problem) on list view is a Caja issue, because Nemo is showing them.

I unlinked from the Folder Color, because it's not an issue for that package, OK? :)
I was looking for a caja package, but I didn't find it.

I think the code is here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/caja/vivid-proposed/files

Hi Martin :) Is not working now?

@costales - have you or anyone had Folder Color running on Arch (List View working)?

Hi! No, I haven't it.
Could it work in Arch? It's global issue in the file browsers, they are
reading the system icon for that folder, but not its gvfs.
A hug!

So I'm confused. I had reported the issue here: https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues
The MATE desktop in general/outside of Ubuntu does not use Folder Color, right? To my way of thinking it will be difficult to persuade them to make a change upstream in Caja so that Caja works fully with Folder Color. The same functionality didn't work in Linux Mint either, but as I understand it Clem is using a different (fork?).

Hi gravy45!

Yes, Folder Color is not an official extension of MATE.

The problem is this: Folder Color sets the icon as gvfs property, but Caja
is showing the default icon for each folder in the List View. I mean, for
"Images" folder, it's not showing the custom icon, it's showing the default
Images icon from the current theme.

But this is a problem in Nemo too (I think to rememeber that in Nautilus is
working).

Best regards!

Problem still persists in Ubuntu-mate 16.04 xenial - Caja 1.12.7

Problem still persists in Mint 18.1 / MATE 1.16.1 / Caja 1.16.1
the same in Mint 18 / MATE 1.14.1 / Caja 1.14.2

i thing this bug still present in Ubuntu Mate 16.04.02

This bug was fixed in the package caja - 1.18.2-0ubuntu1

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caja (1.18.2-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:56:32 +0100

Hello gravy45, or anyone else affected,

Accepted caja into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/caja/1.18.1-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I have tested Caja 1.18.1-0ubuntu2 from proposed on a clean, updated, Ubuntu MATE 17.04 VM and confirm this issue is resolved.

Yes, I confirm that this works from 17.04 VM as well. Nice work.

This bug was fixed in the package caja - 1.18.1-0ubuntu2

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caja (1.18.1-0ubuntu2) zesty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches:
    + Add 0001_return_custom_icons.patch. Make caja_file_get_gicon()
    return custom icons so that the Folder Color extension now works
    when Caja is in List View. (LP: #1442681)

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Apr 2017 02:07:12 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for caja has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

I think it's worth it to make SRU for Xenial and Yakkety. The same patch can be used there.

The patch is taken from upstream release 1.16.6. It can be also applied as is to 1.12.x.

Issue persists in Ubuntu Mate 20.04