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[Tim Abell <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya,

I've been thinking about how we load images into the app, and I think I 
saw that you were setting images for the folders (i.e. categories) in 
the file browser (aka nautilus). This is fine (and looks good!), but I'm 
not sure this will work for the application, as it seems that 
information is stored somewhere specific to Ubuntu (or at least to 
nautilus), and Windows has a different method for setting folder images.

I'm working on something simple that will work for our app on all 
platforms. I'm thinking a specific name of image that the application 
knows to look for in each folder, such as "category-symbol.png" which it 
can then use alongside the folder name to display categories.

While I'm thinking about it it might be nice to allow libraries to cross 
referenced, perhaps a text file saying "also include this folder..." 
that the application can use.

I still think the elegance of the approach you've taken with named image 
files will serve us well, and make it easy for people to contribute to 
the application and customise their own copy if needed.

I've cc'd this message to the new mailing list as it will be good to 
start communicating our plans that way so others can see where we are 
coming from and join in.

Tim