While hunting around on BeBits recently, I came across an application I had completely forgotten about: Jonas Kirillia’s “Label,” a tracker add-on which lets you change the colour of Tracker icons (similar to the colour label support in older versions of Mac OS). The binary available on BeBits crashes with more recent builds of OpenTracker, however the source is also included in the zip file.

After opening up the .proj file in BeIDE and hitting Ctrl-M (“make”), I had a freshly-compiled copy of the binary about 10 seconds later. And this time it worked without crashing – it appears that Label works so long as you’re also running the same version of libtracker.so that was present when it was compiled. So if you’ve been missing this app, or if you never had a chance to try it, grab the download on BeBits and follow the two steps at the beginning of the paragraph (note: on R5, you’ll need to install the Development Tools if they’re not already present).

It seems to work perfectly so far and it’s incredibly handy for quickly adding some visual emphasis to one or more items in a Tracker view (E.g. I’ve been using it to give urgent BeMail messages a red colouring/tint).

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