New Folder Color 0.4.2 for MATE

Hello!

I updated Folder Color and now it gets a better integration with the current theme in Ubuntu MATE.

To try this, you need to remove pre-installed packages:

sudo apt purge -y folder-color-caja folder-color-common

and install from the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/folder-color
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install folder-color-caja
caja -q

Could someone update this last version into the repos? Thanks!

Best regards!

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Hi, @costales :slight_smile:

From what I understand, you're the developer of the "Folder-Color" ("python-caja") extension for β€œCaja” (β€œCaja is the default file manager for the MATE Desktop Environmentβ€œ) - "GitHub - costales/folder-color: Folder Color for Linux file browsers Β· GitHub" - https://github.com/costales/folder-color - right? That's great! :slight_smile:

Unfortunately, this "Ubuntu MATE Community" is "closing" at the end of this month (April 2026) and at least I don't know how to help in getting your updated version of the folder-color Caja extension "into the repos" (I'm assuming that, by "repos", you mean some kind of "Ubuntu MATE" repositories) :frowning:

May I suggest that you post this message of yours in the "Ubuntu MATE" category of "Ubuntu Discourse" / "Ubuntu Community Hub"? The link is the following:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/flavors/ubuntu-mate/191

Maybe, if you post there, some "Ubuntu MATE" developer will see your message and possibly will react to it. I see that you also have a "Costales" user in "Ubuntu Discourse" - "Profile - costales - Ubuntu Community Hub" - that you can use to post your message there.

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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Oh, don’t worry :slight_smile: This was more an announcement of this better integration with Ubuntu MATE.
I added the last comment because if there is a MOTU around, the MOTU has the access to upload to the official Ubuntu repo. A hug :slight_smile:

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