Folder color resets if folder is renamed or moved

[miv391]

Godot version

v4.2.dev4.official [549fcce]

System information

Godot v4.2.dev4 - Windows 10.0.19045 - Vulkan (Forward+) - dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (NVIDIA; 31.0.15.3640) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 Threads)

Issue description

If the folder has assigned a color, the color is reset to default when the folder name is changed. Also subfolder colors are reset.

Also moving a folder resets its and its subfolders' colors.

I would expect that renaming or moving doesn't rest the folder color. Especially if you have a large folder structure with many folder levels and assigned colors, it is a unfortunate to have all colors reset if the top level folder is renamed.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create folder structure

level1
	level2
		level3

2. Set folder colors to level1 and level2.

3. Rename level1 to foobar

-> All folders are now using the default color.

Minimal reproduction project

N/A

[AThousandShips]

Thank you for reporting

• Duplicate of Folder color is not retained after editor restart #81342

Consolidating there

[AThousandShips]

This is more of a missing feature than a bug, or an expected behaviour not included, though there are gaps in the current behaviour as it doesn't clear entries if folders are deleted etc.

Will look into adding this as a feature

[miv391]

I guess it's not trivial to update the folder names in project.godot. Is the project.godot the only possible place to store the folder colors? How about adding e.g. .custom or .settings file in the folder itself. That file would then contain the folder color. Now renaming or moving the folder would not break the color.