In the menubar we highlight stuff by show an icon in addition to the label. when we show in the styles list and treeview also an icon for styles that have an .uno: command it would highlight the styles (like all styles that are in the styles writer menubar has an icon) that are more importend than others. In addition to highlight specific styles some styles didn't have an preview like table styles or styles in draw. By the posibility to have an icon in the styles sidebar we can have an "preview" icon of an draw style.
Created attachment 152839 [details] Icons at the styles sidebar
It would look much nicer.
Icons make the item pop out, which is wanted for the more relevant styles. So a clear +1.
It might be not so hard to assign an icon to a treeview node, perhaps easy to hack.
Jim, is this something for you? We need to somehow enhance the (inbuilt) styles with icons and show this eventually in the Stylist.
Created attachment 187195 [details] styles icons for heading styles 1 through 6 (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) > Jim, is this something for you? We need to somehow enhance the (inbuilt) > styles with icons and show this eventually in the Stylist. The icons can be drawn when the previews for styles are drawn. This approach will only show the icons when 'Show previews' is checked.
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #6) > Created attachment 187195 [details] > styles icons for heading styles 1 through 6 LGTM, would be even nicer if the icons stand out from the text. Ultimately I wonder if we really want to add icons to some of the styles.
I don't think it will useful. Styles pane should show current view of the styles.
This will make the interface look busier. Then the burden of maintaining the icon file will raise as we need to provide all of them. I think only a few icons can be applied in the toolbar as it is now
Created attachment 187213 [details] styles icons scaled to style preview height Here is a demo that scales the height of the icon to match the style preview. I'm good with whatever is decided, even if it's not to do this.
Let's leave the Stylist icon free. Styles are just too flexible.
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #10) > I'm good with whatever is decided, even if it's not to do this. Thanks Jim, hope it was not too much work.