Folder badges

[toMeloos]

RabbitVCS Nautilus integration has the nice feature of adding badges to folders under version control. The badge icon also shows the status of the clone. Dropbox does a similar thing to show a folder is under dropbox management and the badge icon tells you the synchronization state.

It would be great if this could be implemented for nautilus-git. Perhaps with color/icon coding like:

• red = uncommitted modifications
• orange = unpushed commits
• yellow = branch is behind on origin, and can be fast-forwarded
• green = clean

[bilelmoussaoui]

That should be really easy to implement. But we do need some nice icons for that 👍 If someone is willing to design them, i will implement this feature. As using the same emblems as Dropbox is not really the best idea.

[toMeloos]

Probably no need to reinvent the wheel. I suggest adopting the RabbitVCS ones (especially since this project seems all but dead) which in turn adopted the TortoiseSVN ones.

https://github.com/rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs/tree/master/data/icons/hicolor/scalable/emblems

[bilelmoussaoui]

@toMeloos They don't really fit with default theme on GNOME. Something that shows this information a little bit better would be nice :)
i will first fix the rest of the issues and then implement this one. I will use some default emblems until some designer step up to help me here

[toMeloos]

👍

I agree they are ugly. Using the default ones is probably the way to go anyway, since that will keep it looking good and consistent with any icon set that users might apply when theming their desktop.

Looking forward to this enhancement :-)

[fbruetting]

Why not just use the Git icon and color it differently?

[AnirvanB]

We already have: https://github.com/chrisjbillington/git-nautilus-icons.