Re: Model icons

[Marty]

Yeah, I've tried to create templatetag like this:

@register.simple_tag
def get_module_icon(model, app):
    if app == 'auth':
        if model == 'Groups':
            return '<i class="fas fa-users"></i>'
        elif model == 'Users':
            return '<i class="fas fa-user"></i>'
    elif app == 'core':
        elif model == 'Generations':
            return '<i class="fas fa-layer-group"></i>'
        elif model == 'Product models':
            return '<i class="fas fa-server"></i>'
    elif app == 'bto':
        if model == 'Components':
            return '<i class="fas fa-microchip"></i>'
        elif model == 'Layouts':
            return '<i class="fas fa-drafting-compass"></i>'
        elif model == 'SKU configurations':
            return '<i class="fas fa-gavel"></i>'
        elif model == 'XML component definitions':
            return '<i class="fas fa-cubes"></i>'
    return ''

I don't like this way so much and I thought it would be easier even for 
other potentional developers who would like to use icons so it seemed 
putting it to Meta would be better. However I get mixing HTML to model is 
not good. 🙂
What would be the most clean way to use icons like that?

On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 8:23:28 PM UTC+1 Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> I too find the idea of hard coded HTML in a Python file to be inelegant, 
> for what it's worth.
>
> Arthur Pemberton
>
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 08:12, 'Adam Johnson' via Django developers 
> (Contributions to Django itself) <django-d...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Putting HTML for the admin in model definitions is a bit too coupled.
>>
>> I think you may be able to add icons already by overriding the admin 
>> template - can you try playing around with that?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 12:07 AM Yeonggwang Yang <immuta...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> that sounds good with me
>>>
>>> 2023년 2월 5일 일요일 오전 9시 36분 17초 UTC+9에 Marty님이 작성:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Recently, it's trend to use icons or emoji before menu items and I like 
>>>> this idea because  IMHO people orient better and more quickly when they 
>>>> see 
>>>> picture.
>>>>
>>>> What about to add this feature to native django? I thought the easiest 
>>>> way would be to add new Meta option to Model. The default Meta icon would 
>>>> be empty string so everything would work like now. If I want to make menu 
>>>> more readable, I just add emoji (🔨) or html (Awesome font - *<i 
>>>> class="fa-solid fa-hammer"></i>* , Bootstrap icon - *<i class="bi 
>>>> bi-hammer"></i>*, etc.) to Meta icon.
>>>>
>>>> Code example:
>>>>
>>>> *Model:*
>>>> class Hammer(models.Model):
>>>>     ...
>>>>
>>>>     Meta:
>>>>         icon = '<i class="fa-solid fa-hammer"></i>'
>>>>
>>>> *app_list.html template:*
>>>> ...
>>>> <th scope="row">{{model.icon}} {{model.name}}</th>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Final result:
>>>> [image: admin navbar.png]
>>>>
>>>> Maybe own icon could have even the parent app (AppConfig). And the 
>>>> model icon could be in breadcrumbs.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think about this idea? 🙂
>>>>
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