There is already the tree item visitor, as demo'ed by
colorize_headlines.py plugin. It should be able to do a lot of things,
but here I'm thinking of something that is less free-form but faster
(and of course "form is liberating"), and possible adequate for 80% of
advanced use cases (like the proprietary & expensive requirement
tracking system I'm using as inspiration right now)

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:45:28 +0300
> "Ville M. Vainio" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Leo itself would not deal with "classes" apart from UI level.
>
> More complex node rendering is something I've wanted to try for a long
> time, using rules to add icons and change foreground / background color
> and perhaps have summary instead of full headline text displayed (but
> switch to full when editing of course).  I.e. I'd rather see
>
>   [auto-icon] views.py
>
> than
>
>   @auto 
> /mnt/usr1/home/tbrown/Desktop/Proj/GLRI/data/siteweb/siteweb/siteapp/views.py
>
> for some reason :-)
>
> I'd like to try reasonably open ended rules for the rendering, in terms
> of text content and uA values, and the colors / font / style / text
> changes they can map to.  Basically equivalent to CSS for node styling.
>
> Not really sure how this would relate to a blessed class attribute, I
> guess I'm not sure what, beyond special rendering, you'd want to drive
> with the class attribute?  Prior to this, the Leo way to designate a
> nodes type is with @directives.  I assume you'd want an space separated
> list of classes a la CSS, so a node could have multiple classes.
>
> Cheers -Terry
>
> Cheers -Terry
>
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