[O] org-icons package (was: how to change the headline starter *)

[Renzo Been]

Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> writes:

> 
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter <at> gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Is there any particular reason for it to be hardcoded? Apart from the
> > fact that /well it just is this way right now/ I mean.
> 
> Nothing carved in stone, but here are the two reasons I see:
> 
> - we don't want users to use arbitrary regexp to match headlines as they
>   are very likely to shoot themselves in the foot (Harven's example of
>   using "-" instead of "*" is a good example of that.)
> 
> - Given this, I am not able to imagine a good way of limiting the number
>   of allowed characters.
> 
> > That'd be useful information for anyone interested in changing it. 
> 
> I'd interested in any solution to the problems above.
> 
> > Then
> > you can still just tell them to write a patch if they care that much
> > ('cause even in org-mode-land patches don't write themselves just yet)
> 
> :)
> 
> > [I just had the most awesome idea for a feature request].
> 
> Please share!
> 
> > If it's "just" about inheriting from a variable in some 300 places it
> > could at least be discussed.
> 
> Yep -- if you have the energy to go through the code and see where it is
> hardcoded while it should not, please do.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Hi,

I was just thinking... If you want to change the "look" of the
org-headlines. Does one really need to change the code?

I have been using Nicolas Girard's org-icons package for quite a while. And
that makes org-buffers look pretty nice. You can even customise the icons, to
make it look the way you want.

However, some things about the org-icons package... It seems to be a little
outdated.  Are there many org-moders out there still using it?  Were there
ever any plans to include it in the org-distribution? Right now it needs to be
installed by hand, because the patch to org.el is outdated...  Also, I need to
load it two times in my .emacs before the icons work...

Ciao,
Renzo

The org-icons can be found here:
Download from Nicolas Girard's github
http://github.com/ngirard/org-icons
On the Worg site I could only find screenshots, no other information...
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-screenshots.html
The list-message announcement for org-icons
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87zl2962um.fsf%40stats.ox.ac.uk%3e
And some list-messages discussing including the org-icons-patch into org-mode
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87zlbx3kvf.fsf%40kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ%3e