# Wish: Return Finder Labels to Mavericks

**URL:** <https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/wish-return-finder-labels-to-mavericks/662>\
**Category:** TotalFinder\
**Created:** [October 27, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/wish-return-finder-labels-to-mavericks/662 "2013-10-27T17:50:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 4

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**Author:** ![darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/darwin/32/2275_2.png) [@darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/darwin)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/wish-return-finder-labels-to-mavericks/662/61 "2014-04-09T05:50:49Z")

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> [@ruudwelten](#):
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> The text color for all columns but the filename in list view used to be black but now it is a lighter gray with anti-aliasing to white.

Good catch. This will be fixed in next release.

> [@ruudwelten](#):
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> Would it be possible to have the option in the settings to automatically disable older color labels?

I cannot enforce this, because tags subsystem goes beyond Finder. It is a system-level feature. Right now colored label is defined as color of the last tag applied. I can imagine some external utility sitting in background and watching filesystem events and enforcing some rule like ‘keep only most recent tag’ or something similar. But this is beyond scope of TotalFinder I guess.

> [@ruudwelten](#):
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> It would be great if custom color labels could be created in the settings. Let a user name it and input a color code (hex/rgb/sliders).

Tag colors can be possibly redefined via `~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.labels.plist`. But this is probably legacy feature which will go away in the next OS release. I don’t know more details and I wasn’t able to google some additional info.

> [@Problems with tag colors](http://discuss.binaryage.com/t/problems-with-tag-colors/1691):
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> Just purchased TotalFinder for the return of fully colored tags/labels (and thanks for implementing that). I know the feature is still beta, but I’m having an issue I don’t see mentioned anywhere else: The color of the bar applied to my files is different than the color dot (which is colored as per the tag selected). [image] These are all newly created and tagged folders, but the behavior is the same as for existing folders already tagged. The folder at the top is set with the normal “Yellow”…

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**Author:** ![Kimbakat](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/kimbakat/32/1201_2.png) [@Kimbakat](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/Kimbakat)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/wish-return-finder-labels-to-mavericks/662/62 "2015-01-29T20:13:10Z")

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Its very strange that Apple didn’t consider people using full-on labels with Finder items to be used integrally into user’s workspaces for file meaning and visual efficiency!

Makes us wonder why Apple isn’t hiring it’s biggest “users” versus fans to oversee their design department.

Sometimes there are people that want to make change just for the sake of change…whether it’s better for the user or not. This is really bad way to change things.

If you want to see a good example of an editor that makes petty changes which are not for the betterment of a story…this one is a doozy.

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