Allow user to add an icon along with a custom string, just like they are in predefined category’s like up next has an icon for next before the string.
allow for more options when creating custom strings, this already exists for predefined strings would allow for more combinations
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You can use Unicode characters like “
” in your strings to serve as icons for most things.
Amusingly, the example you chose (next track) is one of the few where there’s not really a matching Unicode character. (And for some characters, the device will convert it to an emoji when displayed.)
Some way of accessing the built-in icons would be neat, though I think Unicode already covers most of them.
The closest i found was ‣I this, which i will now use though i still wish i could have the one in the image as is, Another thing is that i wish it was so that the icons did not interact with the elipses setting of the string.
So that the next icon would stay, while the string thats too long would rotate to display the name, this way its clear in the ui its showing the next track.
Edit: scratch the below… Forgot that \t doesn’t work in Top Bar. Tolriq said they have no plans to add it in either, at least as of a few months ago when I asked about it for this exact purpose.
But for any String outside the Top Bar, if you are not using Space Between/Evenly for horizontal alignment, you can use the \t operator to do this.
So it could look like:
‣I\t%next.track%
And then only the long part will have Marquee. (Note that Marquee doesn’t work too well if you have multiple long parts–only the first long portion will show iirc.)
(It’ll still work with those two alignments, but the spacing will probably be undesirable.)
Oh well if only it could be done, i did not know that was an option fir elipses thank you maybe it will come to be useful someother way.
Right now i am using
%next.title%
For my top bar