On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > Would anyone else benefit from having some means of displaying an icon > before a page title in the Index tree? I would love to have some means > of visually representing the pages in a very large notebook, to rapidly > identify the page for which I am looking. I imagine this could be > accomplished simply by having a "favicon.png" or "favicon.ico" in the > directory for a given page and instruct Zim to load it if such a file > exists. There could also be a default icon for pages with no icon > specified. Anyone else see this as a feature worth implementing?
There have been several requests for icons for pages before, but so far I avoided looking into it as I don't see much use for it myself. But feel free to have a look at it and commit a patch. I think it is useful to talk a bit in terms of use cases: what do you want to use it for? A) When you talk about favicon I assume you want to mark "special" pages in the index, e.g home page. So each icon will only appear only once. This is very doable, you need to add the logic to determine the icons, add them in the index and then just pack the icon in the treeview cells. B) Other users may want to use icons more like tags. So multiple pages about the same topic can have the same icon. Here I see more problems, because you potentially want multiple icons per page. Also when they act as tags, you may want to search for them etc. In fact in this case I would propose adding a tag to a page and let the tag have an icon instead of adding an icon directly. If this is what you are thinking of, it will need more design work to come up with a good patch. Regards, Jaap P.S. I think I will veto calling the icon "favicon" by default, instead configure an icon name per page without the need for the icon to have a special name. Supporting the name "favicon" as a special name can be considered though if you really are doing website development in zim. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
