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Currently, sidebery supports automatic loading of remote icons of a variety of formats. The user does not have to do anything special other than set appropriate add-on permissions and then include the URL string, such as...
ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif
However, local icons do not work the same way. The user must manually enter a prefix...
ex: data:image/png;base64,
and then provide a base64-encoded icon...
ex: R0lGODlhEgASAKIAAP/jyvihV/aKLfmxc/////9mAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAASABIAAAMpWLrc/jDKOQkRy8pBhuKeRAAKQFBBxwVUYY5twXVxodV3nLd77f9ASQIAOw==
which is probably counterintuitive to most users.
It would be very convenient if the user could simply enter, for example:
C:\Users\User1\Desktop\icon.png
...and sidebery would process and load the png automatically, as it does with the remote file.
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I agree that adding base64 icons is not intuitive, although I feel like accessing file paths as described may run into some permission issues... Perhaps a better way to go about it would be to use an upload file dialog?
Description
Currently, sidebery supports automatic loading of remote icons of a variety of formats. The user does not have to do anything special other than set appropriate add-on permissions and then include the URL string, such as...
ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif
However, local icons do not work the same way. The user must manually enter a prefix...
ex: data:image/png;base64,
and then provide a base64-encoded icon...
ex: R0lGODlhEgASAKIAAP/jyvihV/aKLfmxc/////9mAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAASABIAAAMpWLrc/jDKOQkRy8pBhuKeRAAKQFBBxwVUYY5twXVxodV3nLd77f9ASQIAOw==
which is probably counterintuitive to most users.
It would be very convenient if the user could simply enter, for example:
C:\Users\User1\Desktop\icon.png
...and sidebery would process and load the png automatically, as it does with the remote file.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: