[DISCUSSION] Add generic alphabetical icons

[lorrding]

About this discussion

As far as I know, we don't have any generic letter icons.

It could be useful to have a set of generic icons that are not bound to any app but could be used as a way to temporarily cover one that is not yet supported or linked to apps that uses a letter.

The first thing that comes to my mind could be apps like Google that users could bind to generic_G until we have an actual icon for it (obviously we already have in this case).
Some apps also just have a letter for their icons. A great example is the Numworks app. Their app icon is just a big N, so instead of making a new icon with a name like numworks.app we could just link to the generic_N icon.

Think of theses like the generic gallery/calculator/message/contact icons we already have.

[everypizza1]

This would help with some Adobe apps.

[x9136]

@SuperDragonXD Say there are 26 alphabetical icons. What will they be linked to or organized in the overall appfilter.xml structure? A separate section with an empty package?

[SuperDragonXD]

Most of them won't be mapped in appfilter.xml itself (to prevent issues with launchers and dummy apps), but they could be added in a custom generic_map.xml with all the generic icons/apps:

app/assets/generic_map.xml

…
  <item component="" drawable="generic_G" name="G" />
  <item component="" drawable="generic_G_lower" name="g" />
  <item component="" drawable="generic_camera" name="Camera" />
…

[x9136]

Half of the task is done. You can take the icons as is or improve them, and then move on to implementation.

[x9136]

I added 26 letters of the alphabet, so I consider the task completed.

To simplify the installation of these icons, you need to refine Lawnchair: LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair#4880