Ability to use the icon from EXE files as an icon in Kando.

[ScottVordem]

Description

It would be a nice feature to be able to assign the icon image from the program being assigned itself. On Windows, EXE files normally have an icon assigned to them and other software are able to use it as an icon. It would help with identifying programs easier in Kando, especially if there isn't a similar icon in the existing libraries.

Affected Desktop Environments

Windows

Additional Information

The image that is used as an icon for EXEs is an .ico file. sometimes this file is present in the program's directory, but most of the time it is only in the EXE file.

[Schneegans]

Hi there! Yeah, this would be nice. However, I have no idea how difficult this would be to implement. And it would be a Windows-only feature. I think we should have two other features in the future which would make this one more or less obsolete:

• Custom icons loaded from files. While this would require some more steps (manual extraction of the ico, saving it somewhere, loading it into Kando), it would allow you to choose an exe's icon for a menu item in Kando.
• An application-chooser for the Launch-App item. Below the command field in the editor, there could be a list of all installed applications. If an app is selected in the list, the name, command, and icon would be automatically filled. This could be implemented for each backend and would solve your issue nicely, I suppose.

What do you think?

[Schneegans]

Custom icons loaded from files are supported since version 1.2.0 and for the app-chooser idea we have #484. So I think we can close this one.