How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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How do I customize this glyph? I would like to change it to a custom PNG.
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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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I am pretty sure it is drawn not a glyph, dev can confirm though.

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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Yep, drawn and uncustomizable.

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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Please allow this to be changed?🙏

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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Show your great PNG. :)

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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"Great" will be subjective! It's for a specific purpose of fully emulating the look of Explorer by realtime syncing the Quick Access list into XYplorer as an included Catalog. I know if I change the glyph, it will apply to all catalogs instead of just one, but I only use one "include" so I don't mind. The icon being in the catalog name isn't ideal for me, but the 'include' glpyh applies to all items.

These would be nice to have along with glyph customization:

Control over the size of the glyph (currently it is 16px?). 18, 20, 22, 24px values for example.
Per item control over the glyph displaying. That way I could avoid it in the Catalog group name.
Or... per catalog glpyh png definition? Defined at include time?

I don't know why there's a horizontal separator above the full (non-include) Scripts catalog there. It's the first item so there shouldn't be a line.
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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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Do you know that you can customize the icon before the name of a catalog item?

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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I do, but the 'included catalog' glyph is what I hope to change.

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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Well, you can't. Go for the customizable icon.

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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I want each QA item to keep its system-assigned folder icon. It is the green glyph on the right side that stands out. They serve different purposes.

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What's your problem with the green glyph? The color?

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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Colour and shape. It stands out quite a lot. Could custom colour and circular shape be possible if png support is not? If I can change the white and green to custom tones, I can make it less intrusive grey or a favourite colour when the sole catalog I have is a read-only Include generated by a script. I already know my catalog is Included, so having a green square beside every item is visual noise. It's not giving me information, it's demanding attention with no return. I might try dark greys so it's there but close to my dark mode background. I might try a neutral medium-light purple with no white border. Rounded feels like it fits more with Windows 11. The sky's the limit with pngs, though.

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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The color will change if you include more catalogs:
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That's an old feature. Right now, I'm not sure why every item has the glyph and not just the category header. Someone who regularly works with embedded catalogs should chime in here.
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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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That sounds like a bug if it's not supposed to display the glyph on every sub-item?

Can any control be added over the colors per catalog? Perhaps passed to it during the Include command? I only have one catalog included, so I am stuck with green.

Color control and a rounded glyph style option.

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Re: How to change glyph for items from Included catalogs?

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12thXy wrote: 27 Jun 2026 23:29 That sounds like a bug if it's not supposed to display the glyph on every sub-item?
That's the question. Currently there is no time to go into it. Let's see if somebody chimes in.

...

Okay, I did it. Less is more. The next version will...
- remove those colors, all glyphs will be just grey
- show the glyphs only for the category headers
- make them look better in dark mode

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