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 Iβm 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.gnuc...@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): >> >> π paperclip http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%8E >> >> π link symbol http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%94%97 >> >> π file folder http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%81 >> >> πΎ floppy disk http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%92%BE >> >> π pushpin http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%8C >> >> βcheck mark http://graphemica.com/%E2%9C%93 >> >> π page with curl http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%93%83 >> >> π wastebasket http://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%97%91 >> >> β 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
