GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 135106
Need sane way to display only icons for links in toolbar
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
For awhile, I've been using the following trick to display icons in the toolbar without any text: (1) Get a link onto the toolbar and make sure the FavIcon is downloaded. (2) Make the "name" field for the bookmark blank. This has all sorts of negative consequences. For example, if I go into my bookmark editor, I don't see any textual representation, but just the favicon and blankness following it. If you go into the Bookmarks menu and then go to Toolbar, you get the same kind of thing. Also, if you D&D the bookmark somewhere, it will create a new bookmark with the link address as the name, which isn't what you want at all. What is really needed is a sane way to "hide" the text when it is displayed in the toolbar. I.e. a checkbox in the bookmark properties that says, "Hide text when in toolbar." The "name" field should still be filled, and this way it'll show up in Bookmarks menu and Bookmarks editor (and when doing D&D), but it will just be hidden so that the icon can be small and fit on the toolbar. This is essentially a feature request, but I think it is also a bug fix request.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106608 ***
You should be setting the image you want using the "toolbar image" setting in the bookmark property dialog, rather than hacking it.
Crispin, The icon I want to use for these bookmarks is the favicon. The Toolbar Image button gives me access to pixmaps on-disk. Where are these favicons actually stored, and don't you think if you reccomend that method, there should instead be a checkbox on the Toolbar image pane that says, "Use favicon"? -Andrew