Nautilus/Nemo extension that makes changing folders icons easy!

• Escape To close the window
• Return To select the new folder icon
• Shift+Ctrl+S To open the folder icon selector on the current folder

• python2 or python3

• nautilus-python:
  • Arch Linux and Arch-derived distros: python2-nautilus or python3-nautilus

• nemo-python:
  • Arch Linux and Arch-derived distros : nemo-python

• meson >= 0.40.0
• ninja
• appstream-glib

yay -S nautilus-folder-icons

1. Install requirements

2. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/bil-elmoussaoui/nautilus-folder-icons

3. Build it!

cd nautilus-folder-icons
meson builddir --prefix=/usr -Dfile_manager=[nautilus|nemo]
sudo ninja -C builddir install

4. Restart Nautilus/Nemo

nautilus -q
nemo -q

sudo ninja -C builddir uninstall

In order to generate the pot file, run the following commands:

meson builddir --prefix=/usr
ninja nautilus-folder-icons-update-po

A .pot will be generated on ./po which can be translated using Poedit. The PR should contain only the .po file