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Icon packs

The format

Icon packs are .ZIP archives with a collection of icons and a pack.json file. The icon pack definition is a JSON file, formatted like the example below. All icon packs have a name, a UUID, a version and a list of icons. The version number is incremented when a new version of the icon pack is released. The UUID is randomly generated once and stays the same across different versions.

{
    "uuid": "c553f06f-2a17-46ca-87f5-56af90dd0500",
    "name": "Alex' Icon Pack",
    "version": 1,
    "icons": [
        {
            "filename": "services/Google.png",
            "category": "Services",
            "issuer": [ "google" ]
        },
        {
            "filename": "services/Blizzard.png",
            "category": "Gaming",
            "issuer": [ "blizzard", "battle.net" ]
        }
    ]
}

Every icon definition contains the filename of the icon file, relative to the root of the .ZIP archive. Icon definitions also have a list of strings that the Issuer field in Aegis is matched against for automatic selection of an icon for new entries. Matching is done in a case-insensitive manner. There's also a category field.

The following image formats are supported, in order of preference:

Name MIME Extension
SVG image/svg+xml .svg
PNG image/png .png
JPEG image/jpeg .jpg

Any files in the .ZIP archive that are not the pack.json file or referred to in the icons list are ignored. Such files are not extracted when importing the icon pack into Aegis.

Using icon packs in Aegis

Users can download an icon pack from the internet and import it into Aegis through the settings menu. Aegis extracts the icon pack to icons/{uuid}/{version}, relative to its internal storage directory. So for the example icon pack above, that'd be: icons/c553f06f-2a17-46ca-87f5-56af90dd0500/1. If it has an old version of the icon pack, it will be removed after successful extraction of the newer version.

After that, Aegis will start proposing icons for new entries if the issuer matches with one of the icons in the pack. We'll also have an icon selection dialog, where all of the icons in the pack appear. When the user selects an icon, it is copied and stored in the vault file.