Feature request: leo should be able to load icons from a custom location

[zpcspm]

Problem: leo's "boxXX" icons are hardcoded. They don't look too well
if leo runs with a dark theme. Please see http://i.imgur.com/dkVjp.png

I think leo should be able to load icons from a non-default location.
This way it would be possible to use another set of icons instead of
default ones.

Perhaps ~/.leo/ is a good candidate, leo could look there for an Icons
subdirectory and load icons from there first, then fall back to
default ones.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Jun 3, 9:59 am, zpcspm <zpc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think leo should be able to load icons from a non-default location.
> This way it would be possible to use another set of icons instead of
> default ones.

Not a bad idea. I'll put it on the list. Is there is some reason why
you can't replace the box icons yourself?

Edward

[Ville M. Vainio]

If you are running from bzr branch that you update regularly,
replacing files will cause problems. Better have the "user specified"
stuff outside the source tree (as is the case w/ myLeoSettings.leo)

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[zpcspm]

On Jun 14, 8:36 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll put it on the list. Is there is some reason why
> you can't replace the box icons yourself?

On Jun 14, 9:54 pm, "Ville M. Vainio" <vivai...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are running from bzr branch that you update regularly,
> replacing files will cause problems. Better have the "user specified"
> stuff outside the source tree (as is the case w/ myLeoSettings.leo)

Exactly. This is my use case. I can replace the genuine icons that
come with leo, but as soon as I'll pull from launchpad - a merge
conflict will happen.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:13 PM, zpcspm <zpc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Exactly. This is my use case. I can replace the genuine icons that
> come with leo, but as soon as I'll pull from launchpad - a merge
> conflict will happen.

I'm convinced. I'll add this feature to the next release. I'm
leaning towards calling it 4.9 final. This will encourage more people
to use it.

Edward