Is there any tweak to bring back emblems in Nautilus?

How to...

From the Unity Dash, search for software sources and enable the "Multiverse Repository"

Now in a terminal copy and paste (one line at a time)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dr3mro/nautilus-actions-extra
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions-extra
nautilus -q

Use the following option to emblemize your file/folder:

notes

1. This installs 70Mb of various packages. More importantly, you can see it installs many nautilus extras. You can remove any of the installed scripts via the tool nautilus-actions-config-tool
2. You have to hit F5 to refresh the Nautilus folder contents for the emblem to appear.

source

Lol, I just read an article about adding emblems back into Nautilus and I come here and find this question. Anyways, yes, you can add emblems back into Nautilus, and here's how:

Follow these instructions (source: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/12/how-to-manually-add-emblems-in-nautilus.html):

First, install python-nautilus. In Ubuntu, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-nautilus

Second, download the python script from HERE, extract the downloaded archive and copy the nautilus_emblems_menu.py file to /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/ (To be able to do this, open Nautilus as root: "gksu nautilus /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/").

Third, restart Nautilus:

nautilus -q

Now when you right click a file or folder in Nautilus, you should see a new item called "Emblems".

Please make sure that you read the original source article in which I got this information from (link is given above), as it contains information on how to add even more emblems to Nautilus.

NEW ANSWER

The easiest way to do it is to install thunar (from the Xubuntu distro --- should be as easy as apt-get install thunar). The Thunar developers have left the emblems option. Once you have set them with thunar, they are visible in nautilus too... so no need to change the default file browser if you do not want.

OLD ANSWER

There is another option, see https://github.com/allefant/Nautilus-Emblems-Menu-Extension/blob/master/nautilus_emblems_menu.py (instruction and plea for help in the same file).

You can drop the file also in .local/share/nautilus-python/extensions directory, no need to go superuser.

Sad, I like emblems. If someone knows how to lobby for that...

(By the way, I tried. I was answered WONTFIX. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665735 )

You can also add the emblems via command line. To see the emblems a file/dir has associated with it, issue

gvfs-info -a metadata::emblems file_or_dir

To set the emblems cool and default on a file/dir:

gvfs-set-attribute -t stringv file_or_dir metadata::emblems cool default

To clear the emblems on file/dir

gvfs-set-attribute -t unset file_or_dir metadata::emblems

Still looking for a gvfs command to list the available emblems...