File Labelling (like os9)

[wapstar]

This has been posted before I am sure but. I want to be able to label(colorise) a files icon, like in OS9
Is there any software around that does this?

 

[bobw]

Labels X

 

[RPS]

And soon, when 10.3 comes out, you can just do it easy again. It's back in 10.3.

 

[adambyte]

Right. But in OS 9, when you labelled something, the ICON changed colors. Now, when labels comes back in 10.3, the NAME of the file will be colored, a la iCal's little round strips of color.

 

[DeltaMac]

Sounds like actual labels now with Panther (why call it labels when the Icon is the only part that is colored?) he he

 

[symphonix]

I just use different coloured folder icons ... its almost as easy.

Try out the "iMac Folders 2.0" icon set, here:
http://www.xicons.com/category/10/index4.html

 

[wapstar]

X icons only lets you label folders,, I want to label file icons more than folders.

can you label files in 10.3?

 

[Decado]

Yes, you can label files.
this is how it looks in the pre-release.

 

[adambyte]

Now doesn't that just look really classy? I might start using labels just because they look so good in 10.3

 

[wapstar]

hmm that looks pretty ordinary.
>:| hmm

c'mon apple designers you can do better than that

hmm

 

[DeltaMac]

That example doesn't look Ordinary to me, it looks almost - Swedish! hmm !

 

[Decado]

this how it looks when you select labeled items.

 

[Arden]

Well, that sure is an odd way of doing it... I don't know why you think that looks ordinary, have you ever seen it done before? (And I mean in the OS folders, etc.)

I thought, when Adam said the name would be colored, the actual text would change color. Now, that would be cool. This way just, well, it just kinda messes up the whole white background thing a bit... and, um... yeah, I don't like that too much. Well, whatever, it'll probably grow on me like the G5's design has.

 

[wapstar]

i just think it doesnt look that great, why not make it simple and neat, Just go back to colorizing the icon.
No silly bubbles around the text just color the icon.
just the icon
colored - icon

 

[Arden]

Amen. Putting color around the text is all cutesy and nice for something like iChat, but it gets to looking weird in the Finder.