Joplin: Add support for notebook icons

[laurent22]

Application

• Desktop
• Mobile

Description

We would like to support notebook icons in the sidebar, as is done for example in Bear. See screenshot below:

Specification

• Add a new icon property to the Folder object - it will be a string that will take any of the Fork Awesome icon names.
• Make sure Fork Awesome is loaded in the app (it should already be) so that its icons can be displayed
• When right-clicking a notebook, change "Rename" to "Properties"
• Change the Rename dialog to a more generic Notebook Properties dialog
• Add the option to set the icon there. Initially it can be a simple text input where the user inputs the name of the icon directly. We can link to the Fork Awesome page to give the list of possible icons.
• When the user click Save, save the icon to the database
• In the sidebar, display the icon next to the notebook name.

Ideally both desktop and mobile should be supported, but it's ok to only support one of them at first.

[bedwardly-down]

This doesn't do anything fancy or really useful yet, but I've got a start so far on this.

[plibither8]

Hey @laurent22 and @bedwardly-down, I'd like to help out on this issue. Is there a discussion thread regarding this on Discourse?

[laurent22]

@plibither8, no, only the spec above but if you need more info feel free to ask here.

@bedwardly-down, thanks but please check the spec carefully - I do not want to clutter context menus with items like "Set icon", that's why I've put it under "Properties".

[bedwardly-down]

@plibither8 it doesn't look like it, but if you want to assist with what I've done so far, I'd gladly take it as long as you know how to use git and are willing to stay pretty consistent with how the devs have already written the code.

These steps apply to anyone regardless of proficiency that want to help out so that everything stays consistent:

1. Fork my joplin fork
2. git clone <insert the full line that begins with git@ on your repo>
   in a terminal or Git for Bash/Powershell if you're on Windows
   
3. cd joplin
4. npm install
5. git remote add upstream https://github.com/bedwardly-down/joplin.git
   this way you have access to my changes and can pull updates on the fly
6. git fetch upstream
   to pull my branches to your repo (might not be necessary)
7. git checkout upstream/Notebook-Icons
   the branch I'm working on for this task
8. Optional: I'd highly recommend creating your own branch (like Notebook-Icons-local) so you can test out things without messing up what I or anyone else has done. When you feel confident, send a pull request and I'll check it out.

I want to keep this completely separate from the main joplin repo until everything gets ironed out and is working. Thanks. :D

[plibither8]

Thanks @bedwardly-down. I've got sufficient experience with Git so I'm pretty sure I'll be able to handle that aspect of the issue - thanks for the instructions! :)

I'll hopefully start work on this tomorrow.

[bedwardly-down]

@plibither8 you're quite welcome. My instructions definitely weren't for anyone in particular, just me laying out how I want people to go about helping me. :D

[bedwardly-down]

@plibither8 I have a NotebookPropertiesDialog class started in ElectronClient/app/gui. I'm not 100% sure how to implement everything yet but am going to mainly doing everything there with some code added where needed to get the app to register the new additions. MainScreen looks like the main area for just that.

[bedwardly-down]

@laurent22 i would love to be assigned this issue. I don't have a massive amount of experience with nodejs or reactjs but I'm great at learning on the fly and have quite a bit of experience with Java and a small handful of other languages.

[laurent22]

That's done @bedwardly-down 👍

[bedwardly-down]

@laurent22 what's your policy on progress updates for assignments? I didn't see anything about that in the Contributing Code section of the docs.

[laurent22]

No policy as of yet

[bedwardly-down]

Thanks for getting back to me. I can't sleep, so I'm working on the task as we speak.

[bedwardly-down]

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/2427

[idl99]

Hi @laurent22 , i'd like to work on this issue for the React Native Mobile app. Should i create a draft PR and reference it in this issue thread before starting work on it or once i've completed it?

[rabeehrz]

Working on this.

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