Does papirus-folders act only system-wide ?

[Coeur-Noir]

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 ?

[SmartFinn]

That depends on where Papirus icon theme is installed. If the icons installed to the home directory then papirus-folders applied the color to the user, if to root - system-wide.

To solve this issue just install another copy of Papirus icon theme to the user's home directory and change folder color with papirus-folders command. (sudo papirus-folders, in this case, changes colors for system-wide).

[Coeur-Noir]

Mmm… Does not seem to work. I first installed Papirus system-wide. Then change color, papirus-folder asked me for root password. My folders are grey in all sessions.

Now I have also copied Papirus* into ~/.icons of each user. Run papirus-folder no longer asks for root password but change is not applied, folders color is still the one previously set using root password.

Should I delete Papirus* from /usr/share/local/icons to have it installed only per user side ?

[SmartFinn]

I just tested on my system (GNOME Shell 3.32.2) it works as expected. Icons installed to $HOME/.icons have higher priority than the system's icons. Maybe the problem related to Budgie. I have to check this.

papirus-folders -l shows the chosen color or a default? If the chosen one then try to update caches for all themes with papirus-folders -uv.

[SmartFinn]

On Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 works fine. The system folders are gray, the user's folders are cyan:

[Coeur-Noir]

Sorry… did all that and still not ok.



Of course I quit and relaunch nautilus each time.
Even did I quit session and log in again…

[SmartFinn]

You didn't mention that you using Unity. So Unity doesn't use icons from ~/.icons. Try to delete the themes from $HOME/.icons and install them to $HOME/.local/share/icons (link).

[Coeur-Noir]

It's another session with Unity on the same system. But I start thinking Unity and Budgie can't live together well… despite being run by different users.

In both sessions, icons are actually installed in ~/.local/share/icons and ~/.icons is a symlink towards it.

[SmartFinn]

@Coeur-Noir

In both sessions, icons are actually installed in ~/.local/share/icons and ~/.icons is a symlink towards it.

That is the problem. ~/.icons cannot be a symlink, it must be a directory.

[Coeur-Noir]

Aaaww… how strange about the symlink ?

Meanwhile here is what I did to « fix » my issue, while keeping the .icons symlink ( I need it for other themes or icon set ) :
⋅ completely uninstall everything regarding papirus icons and papirus-folder everywhere,
⋅ installed system-wide papirus icons and papirus-folder,
⋅ run the install script in each user session to install papirrus icons in ~/.icons ( actually ~/.local/share/icons due to my symlink ),
⋅ tried to change color only on user side → did not work,
⋅ completely uninstall papirus system side ( but keeping papirus-folder ) so papirus icons are only in each user session and no longer in /usr/share/icons,
⋅ change color per session → now it works, my unity session has orange folders with ambiance theme and my budgie session has grey folders with adapta theme, no more mismatch !

If the script can't follow symlink then it was normal changes were only applied system-wide. What remains weird is I was unable to revert my changes system-wide though.

Next step : get back to an installation without symlink just to confirm everything works as expected. My own mess, lol.

[SmartFinn]

Btw, the script works fine with symlinks, but GTK framework totally ignores ~/.icons when it's a symlink.

[Coeur-Noir]

And holly…

I removed my ~/.icons symlinks to replace with real folders.

And as soon as I install papirus icons system-wide, all my folders are blue everywhere…
Even if i re-run papirus-folders -C this_or_that in each session ( without sudo )

[SmartFinn]

It seems like a cache issue. Try rebuild cache for the user with papirus-folders -uv and for the system with sudo papirus-folders -uv. Always set --theme <THEME> option to avoid the cache issue in the future.

But I recommend you completely remove Papirus icon theme from all locations with wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-uninstall | sh and then install to the system and to the user with our installation scripts (because our scripts work together with papirus-folders).

[Coeur-Noir]

⋅ Uninstalled using wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-uninstall | sh on each session, each time script asked for sudo password.
⋅ Uninstalled then papirus-folders and papirus icons using synaptic

Installed using scripts from here to system ( sudo ) and to users ( no sudo ). This does not bring papirus-folders. Installed it with synaptic ( therefore from ppa ) which also seems to reinstall icons.

Then changed the color on each user side, grey for Budgie, orange for Unity, did the cache thing. No better result :

Note that in Budgie, desktop settings only shows one Papirus whilst in Unity, unity-tweak shows Papirus icon-set twice. I've tried both, guessing one is for system end the other for user.

Now if I delete papirus icon-set from system I will have different colors in different sessions but administrative applications ( like synaptic, gparted, etc ) won't have papirus icons…

Is there something broken :
⋅ in ppa ?
⋅ in my system ?
⋅ only in 18.04 ?