Finder window - tags - Want complete file colored

Is there a way to color code the file instead of the colored dot beside the file?

TheFrog42 wrote:
Seems like a great idea. The little dot is TOO SMALL to notice in a hurry.
The point of Tags isn't to highlight things. It is to mark them with multiple keywords you can use to help find things based on those keywords. You select the keyword in the Sidebar and the files/folders tagged with that keyword show up in the window.
It would be difficult to color the whole line when you have multiple tags assigned to the same file, perhaps a barber pole type highlight?
Don't get hung up on Tags being a modified "Labels." It is no such thing.
They removed Labels and added Tags.
Getting Labels back will require a lot of people sending feedback.

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