Good day to you!
Checked PKGBUILD and noticed that there's inetutils package in the dependencies. It seems strange to me that a bash script for changing colours of folders will not work without networking library.

The only mention of using its binaries was in the papirus-folders script for the intention of determining user hostname, or at least that's what I've found.

Can we work with just cat /etc/hostname or remove the need of the user hostname altogether? Would love to hear your thoughts on that.

P.S. Thank you very much for your work on papirus! I love it!

Greetings,

I was just wondering if it would be possible or likely for papirus-folders to include the new blue folder icons when Gnome 42 is released? For context I'm referring to the issue and the merge links here:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/126

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/merge_requests/32

What the folder icons in question look like is below:

Please let me know if this is something you might consider as I think the new icons help with contrast with the dark theme. I don't prefer the adwaita-icon set myself, which is why I love to use both papirus-icon-theme and papirus-folders together, hence my inquiry into this. No worries if it can't be done, I'm simply just curious and hopeful is all. In any case, thanks for making this folders package, it's always one of the first things I install on a new system.

KDEfied Bodhi Linux 16.04, using Papirus folder and papirus icon from ppa.

Around two days ago, the folder revert to blue and refused to be changed back to green.

Please help.

> renan@renan-hp14-bodhi4-64:~$ papirus-folders -C green --theme Papirus-Dark
> papirus-folders: Changing color of folders to 'green' for 'Papirus-Dark' ...
> /usr/bin/papirus-folders: line 258: mapfile: -d: invalid option
> mapfile: usage: mapfile [-n count] [-O origin] [-s count] [-t] [-u fd] [-C callback] [-c quantum] [array]
> renan@renan-hp14-bodhi4-64:~$ 
> 

The Papirus Icons look fantastic in GNOME Files/Nautilus, but the commands to change the folder icon colors do not seem to affect the folder icons when using the smallest list view (it falls back to gray folder icons no which color scheme). The new folder colors are only visible when increasing the icon size by at least one step.

Is there any chance to also change the folder icons of the minimal icon size in list view to the desired color?

The temporary files that created by ln appear in find index. Sometimes it breaks the script:

$ > papirus-folders -C bluegrey -v --theme Papirus-Dark
papirus-folders: 'Papirus-Dark' is found in '/usr/share/icons'.
papirus-folders: This operation requires root privileges.
papirus-folders: 'Papirus-Dark' is found in '/usr/share/icons'.
papirus-folders: Changing color of folders to 'bluegrey' for 'Papirus-Dark' ...
find: ‘/usr/share/icons/Papirus-Adapta-Nokto/48x48@2x/places/CuCv49r7’: No such file or directory

I am using version 1.7.0, in papirus-folders -l,
"yaru" is not in the list.

Error message: Unable to find 'yaru' color in 'Papirus'.

KDE just added Sync of the accent color with the current wallpaper.
Would be really nice if Papirus color folder could follow the same logic!

Thanks!

Hello, there is a package for Void since a couple of days :-)

| Void Linux | Benjamín Albiñana | `sudo xbps-install -S papirus-folders` <sup>srcpkgs [[link](https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/papirus-folders)]</sub> |

• Distribution (version): Fedora 33 and 34
• Desktop environment: GNOME
• Installing method: Papirus Installer (Script)

After a while (I use the color Teal) I see the color reset to the original default color, blue.

Distro - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
installing method - PPA
Hi, i was trying to install this on my system, but I'm getting the error in the screenshot below.

Would really appreciate if I could get some help with this... I'm a complete beginner and I've been trying to figure this out for hours now.

Currently, the way papirus-folders works is by manually modifying the theme where it's stored in /usr which doesn't work for immutable distros:

ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/share/icons/Papirus/22x22/places/folder-activities.svg': Read-only file system
papirus-folders: Error: Fail to create '/usr/share/icons/Papirus/22x22/places/folder-activities.svg' symlink

This issue is "addressed" in #35 but that solution requires the user to install the theme to their HOME directory rather than having it installed in their system, which most people would prefer for the sake of easy updating and maintenance.

A possible "ultimate" solution would probably be to add a method of patching icons similar to papirus-colors, where it would be possible to copy the folder icons to the users' HOME directory, manually modify/patch them there under a new "icon theme" which then relies on the original Papirus theme installation for every other icon(s) that aren't the recolored folders.

I'm using OpenSUSE MicroOS Gnome, an immutable system that prevents you from editing root files. I installed both the icon theme and folder from OpenSUSE's official repo. Here is the output when I tries to change the folder colour:

papirus-folders: Changing color of folders to 'brown' for 'Papirus-Dark' ...
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/22x22/places/folder-activities.svg': Read-only file system
papirus-folders: Error: Fail to create '/usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/22x22/places/folder-activities.svg' symlink

Would there be any workaround? Cheers!

Has the indigo colour scheme been added yet? because it's unable to find it.

Thanks!

Hi what about having plugin for Oomox?

You can have a look on Numix-Folders plugin as an example: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox/tree/master/plugins/icons_numix

As you can see in code of the plugin itself, it's very primitive, you just specifying path to the script and arguments: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox/blob/master/plugins/icons_numix/oomox_plugin.py

Here how icon plugins are working in Oomox:

I have and issue I use openSUSE KDE I did replaced to colors to GREEN but nothing change.

See: https://imgur.com/a/VeCOk

Hello @SmartFinn and @varlesh !

I would like to fork your shell script and modify it for my own icons theme which comes with colourful folders.

Gustavo

Since we got a lot of requests to add another folder colors, I understood that we can't cover all them. As to me, the better solution is to add a tool that allows users to add their own colors to the folders and keep only core colors built-in the icon theme.

Currently, I see the tool as:

• a separated script for creating the custom color folders
• an option to call GUI color picker with Zenity
• wiki page(s) for sharing commands between users for creating the custom color folders

Next I see two paths, each of them has its proc and cons.

The first path is to be able to user changing colors for only special folder-custom icons.

Proc:

1. Easy to implement.
2. No need to manage list of colors.
3. After the icon theme upgrade, need to generate limited quantity of icons.

Cons:

1. Unable to create two and more custom colors and switching between them with papirus-folders only. It requires running the papirus-folders-add script each time before switching.

The second path is to allow the user to add unlimited color folders.

Proc:

1. Easy switch between two and more pre-generated color folders.

Cons:

1. Requires to keep all colors added by a user in a file (.csv) and add option to add/remove items from the file.
2. After the icon theme upgrade, it needs to generate ~409*N, where N is a number of user's color folders.
3. It requires a post-remove script for papirus-icon-theme to correctly remove all added icons.

Hey i'm a big fan of the Papirus icon theme, i think it would be really nice if you had Gruvbox and/or Dracula icon themes. Thanks!

Hi,

using papirus-folders here on a Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.

When using it to change the folders default color - let's say to orange - it's applied system-wide to all the sessions / users making use of papirus icons.

Is this intended ?

Or is there a way to set default color for folders per session / per user ?

Is there a way to change all the folder colors in Cinnamon and Nemo without having to select every single folder and changinf its color?

I am using Linux Mint 19.2 and I would like to use Papirus icon pack but with my folder icons to be Green and not Teal.

I would like to put the program in the menu and change color with a single click, I do not know if you have thought that the program has a gui or something like that

Hello,

Thanks for making this and simplifying the process, especially with smaller 3rd party file managers, but it would be nice if you can please make this to install and run from a users $HOME, instead of installing into the root / of the system.

THANKS

The (Manjaro) Papirus-Dark-Maia theme "Videos" folder in the Home directory doesn't change into any color, it does in all the others including hidden folders and this is not the case with the Papirus-Dark theme which does it correctly.

Is there a way to specify two different colors for light/dark variants? Say palebrown for light, and brown for dark

I've tried -t Papirus-Light -C palebrown, followed by -t Papirus-Dark -C brown, but it just overwrites itself. I've tried -t Papirus-Light -C palebrown -t Papirus-Dark -C brown but it just uses the last entry in the command. I've tried editing the keep file, but it doesn't seem to have a notion of multiple themes.

It seemed to me that it would work because I could specify the theme to be targeted, but it appears that it doesn't. Or am I missing something?

After installing papirus-icon-theme and papirus-folders, at some point I noticed that the small icons were not showing up correctly in my browser's save-dialog (both in firefox and vivaldi). They were black and barely noticeable on the dark background. (Not sure why black).

I had set my folder variant to adwaita via papirus-folders:
papirus-folders -C adwaita --theme Papirus

I tried reverting back to the default to see if that fixed the issue:
papirus-folders -D --theme Papirus
It did not.

Upon inspecting the /usr/share/icons/Papirus directory, I discovered that in the 16x16 dir, folder.svg (was black) and was not symlinked to folder-adwaita.svg

Manually symlinking the 16x16 folder.svg proved to fix my issue.

I perused the code and papirus-folders seems to intentionally not symlink the 16x16 sizes.
Am I correct in concluding that this was the cause for my issue?
Or is skipping 16x16 indeed intentional, and there is some other stuff going on?

Hi! I installed both this and Papirus Nord (https://github.com/Adapta-Projects/Papirus-Nord) through the Arch Linux AUR and was going mad trying to figure out why it didn't list any of Papirus Nord's colors.

Then I looked at the code and realized, that the list of colors is hardcoded and that Papirus Nord ships a fork of papirus-folder.

Is there any reason for the list of valid colors to be hardcoded? Why not auto-detect all available colors instead?

I may be missing something really simple, but I installed papirus icons and papirus-folders on linuxmint 20 with cinnamon DE. I'm missing the breeze folder color. Is it only available in KDE Plasma or am I missing something?

Hi. First, thanks for this project, I love how the folders look.

I can see the selected color for folders when viewing files and folders in Grid mode, but when viewing them in List mode the folders are white.

Grid mode

List mode

Can the same selected color, when running the script, be applied to folders in List mode too?

Pop_OS! 22.04
Nautilus
Papirus Dark

That happens when $HOME variable is empty.

PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme#1494
PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme#1496

Sorry to disturb you, but I'm confused on how to install these software without a guide. I'm not very expert user, so I need a textual guide to understand how to install some packages.

The tool is broken after the commit 8d75a871ae8bc3794844037402d03bb8451caae8.

Now, every time I try to change folders' colour, the following error message is thrown:
/usr/bin/papirus-folders: line 258: mapfile: -d: invalid option
mapfile: usage: mapfile [-n count] [-O origin] [-s count] [-t] [-u fd] [-C callback] [-c quantum] [array]

HI.
Using the -l command-line option, I see the "custom" entry.
But how to use it?
I tried -C custom but got black icons, so I suppose I need to provide the custom color somewhere.
But where, and how?

Thanks in advance!

I want to add a mark or folder in my newly created folder i.e. the one I created, just like the default folders of ubuntu e.g. Pictures, Downloads, Documents, Videos, Music etc. How can I do that.