How to change icon/emblem of a directory from bash

Question

I'm playing around with get_iplayer (fantastic) it's running every few hours to grab any new episodes of whatever....

After it has finished grabbing anything new i'd like to change the emblem of ~/Videos to add a plus or star (nautilus emblem preferably)

Do i go about this via nautilus?
Do i need to change something in gnome-config?
I'm sure this can't be FS level?

Cheers for any links and advice.

Rotow

I wanted to give +1 for your question. However, I refrain from doing so as I see you neither up-voted nor accepted any of your two answers. – Prelude

Yes i know, very sorry to both answerers but i have not had any time to revisit this problem (or the project). An accepted answer will be coming, i haven't forgotten about either. – Rotow

Answer 1

gvfs-set-attribute ~/Videos -t stringv metadata::emblems new urgent

gvfs-set-attribute -t string $FOLDER metadata::custom-icon file:///home/user/path/to/icon.jpg

Jelly

im getting an error "Error setting attribute: Setting attribute metadata::emblems not supported" on ubuntu 10.04 – Sorel

Answer 2

There's a package called libnautilus that provides tools for working with nautilus, including emblems. It's what Dropbox uses, for example, to add emblems showing sync status. You could try looking at the source of that.

Dramatization

This looks to be a C library, no good here unfortunately, i've found python-nautilus bindings which might help me – Rotow