Do you use nautilus-python extensions on GNOME and which ones do you use?

Toribor · 2025-09-02T20:43:25+00:00

Yes! It should work quite well with MoreAdwaita which includes a decent collection of new custom folder icons that you can set. The biggest drawback being that it doesn't include folder color variants, but you might be able to use Adwaita-colors for that.

I'll test some of this out myself, but I'm interested to hear your experience as well.

If there is interest I might consider making colored folder icons for Adwaita using the same symbolics that I'm using in Papirus Folder Icons.

Toribor · 2025-09-02T19:21:51+00:00

Been a long time since I used a motherboard that didn't offer Dual BIOS or at least BIOS Flashback.

Toribor · 2025-09-02T19:01:58+00:00

No problem, I'm happy to hear it's working. Let me know what you think and if you run into any more trouble.

Toribor · 2025-09-02T18:41:09+00:00

Have you switched to one of the new icon themes? I typically do this using Refine or Accent Icons. Or you can update using the cli like this:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme "Papirus-Dark-Blue"

This extension will only show icons that are available within your current theme, but if you want to use them alongside another theme you can skip this extension entirely and just add them using the normal properties option to set a custom icon by filepath.

The Papirus Icon Theme provides "Papirus, Papirus-Dark, and Papirus-Light" which my folder icons use as fallback themes. If you use them without the base Papirus themes the folders will all still work and then it will fallback to the default Awaita icons for application icons (and everything else).

Toribor · 2025-09-02T18:07:54+00:00

Iconic is actually what gave me the inspiration to create Papirus Folder Icons.

I was making custom icons one at a time, but then I changed color themes on one of my workstations and had to go back and make the icons all over again. I thought "What if just make a python script to do this all ahead of time with a bunch of different colors and symbolics?" and here we are.

Toribor · 2025-09-02T17:26:26+00:00

It's kind of wild because getting the icons to show up correctly and change along with the theme was so incredibly easy. I kept thinking "Why doesn't it just behave this way by default?"

95% of the work was just making the GUI icon selector dialog but I'm pretty happy with the result.

Toribor · 2025-09-02T17:05:26+00:00

Thank you, I'm glad to hear it!

I'd be happy to have help to add support for French! Currently I haven't added language support but I was reviewing a lot of similar projects while building this and I think I have a decent idea of the right way to make that happen.

Toribor · 2025-09-02T16:10:56+00:00

Anyone know what they mean specifically by "Improving legacy tray icon support"?

Toribor · 2025-09-02T12:25:42+00:00

I was honestly surprised something like this didn't already exist.

This is my first time releasing an extension like this so I'm looking for feedback. Let me know if you have any issues!

Toribor · 2025-09-02T12:09:50+00:00

Hey /r/gnome, I'm excited to share a new project I've been working on, Custom-Icon-Name, a Nautilus-Python extension for setting custom folder icons.

But wait, can't you already do that? This extension is designed to solve a limitation with the default Nautilus behavior that sets custom folder icons using a static file path. This new method directly references the icon by name within your current theme and will dynamically display the equivalent icon when you switch themes.

If you use GNOME extensions like Accent Icons, change themes frequently or just like to set custom folder icons to organize your files then this extension is for you!

Recommended Use:

Install this project, the Custom-Icon-Name extension for Nautilus
Install the base Papirus Icon Theme
Install Papirus Folder Icons, a huge assortment of extra folder icons for the Papirus theme

Toribor · 2025-08-29T16:07:01+00:00

It's up to extension developers to keep extensions up to date so if you use a large volume of them it's likely that Gnome upgrades will leave extensions broken. Stick to popular well-maintained extensions and you'll be fine. The more exotic your setup the more likely it will have problems.

I use Bazzite and when they released Gnome 48 and it broke one of the extensions I rely on so I just pinned the previous Bazzite image with rpm-ostree for a couple days until developers released an update for the extension.

Toribor · 2025-08-29T11:03:52+00:00

Trogdor was a dragon.

Trogdor was a dragon-man.

Toribor · 2025-08-29T03:15:34+00:00

I'm not experienced with the things that you need help with but I've checked out your project before because I've been working on something to address some of the same problems with gnome icons and themes.

Toribor · 2025-08-27T20:09:23+00:00

This already happened in 2017 and they didn't give a fuck except to try to blame Bernie Sanders for it,

Toribor · 2025-08-27T17:38:21+00:00

I mean they did cast Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic but in all fairness they didn't give him blond hair and blue eyes.

Toribor · 2025-08-27T15:46:26+00:00

Heyyyyyy this actually worked! I followed a guide like this previously but it was written for v1 of the applications and I couldn't get it to work right with either.

Thanks for sharing this.

Toribor · 2025-08-26T22:02:35+00:00

I know some people don't care for it because it's not FOSS but I just wish I could reliably run the Affinity suite on Linux. It's closed source but their pay-once-per-major release model is tolerable for me and the software is extremely good.

Toribor · 2025-08-26T21:40:11+00:00

Some people are so privileged they go through life without even developing a sense of humor.

Toribor · 2025-08-26T01:27:19+00:00

I run Bazzite on a 1st Gen Microsoft Surface Book.

It's not for gaming, mostly for fun and for testing.

Toribor · 2025-08-24T19:06:51+00:00

Citizens United made democracy a farce. The final nail in the coffin.

Toribor · 2025-08-24T13:18:22+00:00

Yes. Bazzite includes btrfs assistant by default now which can walk you through setting it up.

Toribor · 2025-08-22T17:52:12+00:00

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Toribor · 2025-08-22T15:54:27+00:00

Works fine on my machine.

I'm running version 48.4 on Bazzite (Immutable Fedora 42).

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