As its name clearly states, Folder Color is a utility that helps you change the color of your folders with ease. In actual fact, it’s an open-source and free file browser extension that’s available straight from the Ubuntu repositories.
With its help, you can effortlessly change the color of individual folders or change the color of several folders at once. What’s more, you can also add various “effects” and badges to folders.
Where to get it from and how to install it
Folder Color works best with Ubuntu’s Nautilus file manager, as well as with file managers of other Ubuntu-based distributions such as Caja (Ubuntu Mate) and Nemo (Linux Mint).
To install the extension, open a Terminal window and enter the following commands: “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/folder-color” followed by “apt-get update && sudo apt-get install folder-color”.
All that’s left to do now is restart the file manager.
The beauty of Folder Color
While Folder Color is not what one might call an impressive or groundbreaking extension/utility, its simplicity makes it worth your while.
It allows you to change the color of any folder fast and with no more than two mouse clicks. Simply right-click on any folder in the file manager, located the “Folder’s Color” sub-menu, and pick a hue from the pre-populated list. That’s it.
The extension also allows you to add various emblems to your folders, for additional visual prominence. “Important,” “finished,” and “in progress” are just some of them.
Conclusion
It doesn’t matter if you just want to add a bit of extra eye-candy to your Ubuntu system, or you actually think that changing the colors of your folders can help you visually “locate” them faster, thus improving your productivity, you’re bound to find Folder Color as a great little tool.
