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[sugestion] UI - sidebar improvements

#1

please support icon fonts(like fontawesome, devicons etc) for sidebar(or even whole ui).
icon fonts has huge benefits vs static images:

  1. it’s easy to set size, and will not lose clarity at any size.
  2. we can throw things like foobar@2x.png away.
  3. rich good quality icon resources out there for use, we will never need to save and export icon one by one.
  4. will improve performance? (read one file vs hundred of images, just guess)
  5. the icon has ability to scale with sidebar text, because it is a character.
  6. the icon has ability to change color like normal text.

and please make lines in sidebar can change to different colors. so we can make git or other source version control system status reflect on sidebar.

glad to see dev back and forum back to life.

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#2

somehow related: https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/pull/128

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#3

Well, that’s not always true. A custom icon designed for a regular (non-retina) screen with proper anti-aliasing for low dpi screen will look better than autoscaled one. Of course, for a retina screen it’s not that crucial

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