Yea but with twemoji

@Explosion-Scratch nice idea! We're looking into it.

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@Explosion-Scratch nice idea! We're looking into it.

It wasn't my idea lol, it was @kylecarbs apparently

This is a silly thing that is also good to have.

We can do emoji in the names already, right? This would be a dedicated field for selecting one icon?

Seems like we should do this for users and workspaces too. None of this needs to happen immediately, but if easy...

I think we add an icon column that is a URI. For now it can be emoji://handwave, but eventually it can be file:/// etc.

Is emoji://handwave a real thing, or did you just invent it?

We don't want to allow file:// ever. If you're referring to an icon embedded in the archive, then we should go another way, for instance requiring them to have a file icon.json or something.

yeah, not exactly sure why to use emoji://, wouldn't just using a lookup table and allowing users to choose be fine? Emojis.json was made for this purpose (find on GH)

I actually thought emoji:// was pretty clever. We could forge a new path! Modifiers and combinations like skin tone would be interesting though.

I actually thought emoji:// was pretty clever. We could forge a new path! Modifiers and combinations like skin tone would be interesting though.

"forging a new path" was what you did in 1990. Now it'd just be inefficient, hard to implement, never used by anyone else, and probably insecure

This is a silly thing that is also good to have.

We can do emoji in the names already, right? This would be a dedicated field for selecting one icon?

The big problem with emojis in the name as opposed to a separate field is it makes it far harder to work with names in the CLI and programmatically.

@kylecarbs are you up for owning this?

Sure!

While emoji:// would be a neat gimmick, data URIs should be just fine:
data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,8J+MrvCfpog=

Should be read as

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Can we do #2221 instead of this? #2221 would still allow emojis, but the more reasonable use case is using OS/Cloud/Software logos as described in that issue.

Makes sense to me. I'll swap it out.

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Reopening this, since icons can support emojis if users pass the image path, we want to provide a better experience by adding an emoji picker.