i brought this up in one of the sessions at the unconference.  in my opinion, 
this is not unlike "minimize", so i believe that "icon" should be created as 
one of the custom portlet states.  paul identified many other ideas for custom 
portlet states at that same meeting...

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>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:10:47 -0700
>From: Gary Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: [uportal-dev] Portlet type identifier  
>To: [email protected]
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>I am desiring to have icons associated with portlets, at least the main 
>ones (email, calendar, news, announcements, rss, etc.).  Do you know of 
>any way to identify the portlet as one of these other than the fname or 
>title?  The fname/title will be tricky without some ugly parsing or 
>standardization of naming.
>
>It would be nice to have something like a "type" attribute on the 
><channel> node for this, where an email portlet would register itself as 
>type=email, a calender portlet as type=calendar, etc.  It could also be 
>done as a custom parameter in the portlet manager, but it would 
>obviously be preferable for the system to do it automatically.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Gary
>
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