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["Alejandro J. Cura" <alejandro.cura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.08.2015, 16:07 -0300 schrieb Alejandro J. Cura:
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Fredrik Andersson
>> <fredrikfritte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Is it possible to make the app icon to show date of the day instead of 28?
>>
>> The icon for a given app is taken from a .desktop file which points at
>> an image file on the filesystem.
>> It could be possible to update this image or to change the .desktop
>> file to point at a different file, and then refreshing the scope and
>> launcher every day at 12am, but it sounds like a lot of code just for
>> this one app.
>
> if the icon file is an svg using text for the date you would actually
> only have to update the text in the XML ;)
>
> though if you take it to the point where yu went with your further
> comments the app scope might start to look like a 90s webpage pretty
> quickly :)

Yup, I'll scratch my proposal then to replace the icons with .qml files :-)

cheers,
-- 
alecu