info about action field in double-line view

[Adrien Monteleone]

Geert,

Could the install not include a particular required font as a dependency or as part of the installer?

Perhaps even better would be to use a GPL licensed icon font, though I’m not sure if you can specify different fonts for different cells in the register. Doing so would provide a cleaner look regardless of the desktop theme. Maybe the combination of an icon font and mapping the desired symbols to the common unicode tables for them might work.

Just a thought.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 2:20 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op woensdag 24 januari 2018 23:14:29 CET schreef Tommy Trussell:
>> Geert:
>> 
>> Maybe the legacy register code cannot handle icons, but instead of using a
>> letter such as "F", can it handle Unicode glyphs?
>> 
>> Here are a few of many available glyphs (including example URLs in case
>> they get mangled in email):
>> 
>> 📎 paperclip http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%8E
>> 
>> 🔗 link symbol http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%94%97
>> 
>> 📁 file folder http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%81
>> 
>> 💾 floppy disk http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%92%BE
>> 
>> 📌 pushpin http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%8C
>> 
>> ✓check mark http://graphemica.com/%E2%9C%93
>> 
>> 📃 page with curl http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%83
>> 
>> 🗑 wastebasket http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%97%91
>> 
>> ⛔ no entry http://graphemica.com/%E2%9B%94
> 
> Hi Tommy,
> 
> That's a neat idea! I didn't think of this at all.
> 
> Text is rendered by the gtk default rendering code, which appears to handle 
> unicode glyphs just fine. I have just copy-pasted the paperclip glyph above in 
> a register in gnucash 2.6.19 (!) and it is rendered correctly.
> 
> The only reservation I'd have is we don't control the user's default/preferred 
> system font. If the chosen font doesn't have the chosen glyphs, the field 
> would display a "glyph-not-found" character. I have no idea what glyphs the 
> default fonts on the various platforms we support provide. That would need 
> some experimentation first.
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
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