icons and text support feature request

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[ardevd]

Icon especially would be very much appreciated

[gelse]

i think that's not as easy as it sounds, as it would need to get the font from somewhere, distinguish between a character and an value for the bar, but oh boy, that would be exactly what i am searching for.

[WhyNotHugo]

Text support could cover both scenarios; fonts like Nerd Fonts have enough icons that they'd cover most cases. This is what waybar does: supports fonts-only, but Nerd Fonts can be used to render all sorts of icons.

Still doens't sound easy tho.

[VasilisMylonas]

Is anyone working on this?

[francma]

If you are looking for icons I would suggest these two projects:

• https://github.com/ErikReider/SwayOSD
• https://github.com/heyjuvi/avizo

I think I'll keep the wob minimal, without any text or icons - appealing to the minimalist user. Adding it would require to redesign wob completely to just end up looking like projects above.

[danielwerg]

Sad. I tried both SwayOSD and avizo. SwayOSD runs fixed set of commands that you can't customize and displays OSD, you can't pass custom text or icons. avizo doesn't support text and seems abandon. Besides I really like both look and configuration of wob :)