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iguanajuice / sway-font-awesome

Icons in sway's title bars using Font Awesome and Nerd Fonts Symbols
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Colored icons? #4

Open iguanajuice opened 12 months ago

iguanajuice commented 12 months ago

Opening this issue to see if anyone would be interested in colored icons.

Obviously, they will only be single color, but I think it could help with at-a-glance legibility nonetheless.

Thoughts?

tkna91 commented 12 months ago

While it may be less distracting to go in a minimalistic direction with no colors, it may be more convenient to have colors for easy identification. It might be a good idea to create a replacement script or include an example command in the README description so that users can generate a colorless version as well.

A version with colors is implemented here, but it is not very simple as it is made by rust and requires daemon activation.

https://github.com/allie-wake-up/swaycons

I feel that your method is more convenient as all I have to do is to include the configuration file.

tkna91 commented 12 months ago

I guess the main advantage of the above is that it can dynamically respond to changes in window titles, etc. I think this is especially useful if you want to manage windows in sway tabs with Firefox as SDI. I don't use it that way, so I prefer to include config.

iguanajuice commented 12 months ago

It might be a good idea to create a replacement script or include an example command in the README description so that users can generate a colorless version as well.

I was thinking of having two different files in the repo, icons and icons-color.

tkna91 commented 12 months ago

It would be nice if it could be automated with github-action or something.

tkna91 commented 12 months ago

No, it seems to me that a shell script or other method such as generating it before git commit, etc. would be better and less dependent on the vendor.