Tags color

Downloaded Maverick and was very disturbed that the TAG colors were converted to tiny circles. I used the colors to help me read the type under folders on my desktop. When looking for files in my folders, they were easier to find when the whole file was highlighted with a color. Now I have to find a small circle. I don’t know what Apple was thinking.
Aa long as I'm on the roll, I don’t like the Grey background in the Safari side bar.

re: sidebars.
The Finder sidebar is also goofy in greyscale, especially when the menu popdowns still show items with color icons.
This has been an interface inconsistency for YEARS and is known to Apple. I can't believe the uncolored sidebar icons still exist in Mavericks. I thought Sir Jony was the design wizard to beat all wizards and he was big on consistency. Guess his influence didn't extend to the sidebar icons in OS X.
I agree with you about the colored circles. I'm miffed that I can't choose custom colors for the new labels.

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I've always highlighted important folders with colors, so that they stand out among others in a list for quicker access. Now in Mavericks list view, there is only a small color dot to the right of the folder's name (sometimes very far from the folder's name if the column is large). As a result, it is much harder to pick important folders. Is there any way to apply the tag color to the whole folder, as it used to be in all previous systems? Or at the very least, to move the dot to the left of the folder name within lists, as in Icon view? I really hope Apple did not remove this feature simply for the sake of design. Thanks.

mistersquid, S. G. is actually referring to the new Tags feature in Mavericks. This replaces entirely the Labels feature in previous versions of the OS, as far as I can tell.
Labels would let you apply a color highlight to a folder. It would appear as a color behind the entire row.
With Mavericks, however, Labels are gone and are replaced with Tags, which just puts a small colored dot off to the right of the folder name (and it's always like this, not just when you click on the folder), and some of these aren't distinct enough from one another (i.e. purple and gray look almost identical if you're scrolling through a series of "gray" folders pretty quickly—you may miss that one purple dot). Also, like S. G. mentioned, these can be pretty far off in your periphery if you've got long folder names, so this just adds another level of "hard-to-see-ness" (it's a technical term ).
I'm a graphic designer and I have been using Labels to colorize my job folders according to their current status. For example:
No label = job is open/in progress.
The next color schemes were more of a "stop light" effect, going from red to green:
Red = job is approved. Prep final files and send to printer/client.
Yellow = job is done. Prepare job ticket/calculate time for billing.
Green = job is done and job ticket is ready to go (hence the green color) to my co-worker for billing/invoicing.
Gray = job is finished/billed/closed (i.e., I've "grayed it out").
Purple = job transferred to another co-worker (i.e., I got too busy and they're working on it now). This one is a rarer color, and with Tags it's a bit difficult to discern one or two purple (more like a light lavender) dots in a sea of gray ones.
I agree with S. G. and would love to see a stronger means of identifying the status of a project at a glance reappear—perhaps as a selectable alternative to Tags in the Finder preferences (because I can definitely see how the two means of colorizing a folder could compete with one another), like a checkbox to the effect of "Use Labels instead of Tags," similar to the "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows" option.
Feedback submitted. Thanks, yodathejedi, for the link.
Message was edited by: Xiebinrui -- oops, duplicated word. Fixed!

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I have added other tags which by default have no color; can I edit the default tag colors to add new colors?

romit3 wrote:
Re backward compatibility, I'd understand if it was to avoid removing functionality, but adding functionality (ie the ability to choose more colours) shouldn't be a problem at all should it?
Yes, here's why:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/9/#tags-implementation
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Win7
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"Labels" has been changed to "Tags" in Mavericks. It appears that you cannot modify the appearance of Tags in Mavericks at this point.
There have been several threads on the subject in this forum, and the some of the suggested solutions are to revert your OS back to the system you had prior to Mavericks, or investigate 3rd party software such as Pathfinder, which allow you to modify the presentation in the finder -
www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/
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I am using the standard people places events others tag categories in PSE9 on Win7 32 bit.
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OS X Yosemite: Use tags to organize files
Edit tags
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> I am doing a lot of code replacement and it would be
really cool to be
> able to have the contents of the cdata tags a different
color.
>
> I know you can change tag colors in the codecoloring.xml
file , but no clue
> how to add what I want.
>
> <calloutcopy><![CDATA[My colored text here so I
can see what to change
> easier]]></calloutcopy>
>
> basically the <![CDATA[ ]]> tag to be a different
color
> Thanks

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