Selective icon groups

[bray]

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I just upgraded to 0.64.0 and added nerdFontsVersion: "3". I now see icons for PRs and filetypes, which is cool, but now there are also commit icons (I guess regular vs. merge commit?).

Personally I find they make it a bit harder to read/skim the commits, and don't provide any additional information (I can see that there was a merge commit because of the icons between the SHA and the commit msg).

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Describe the solution you'd like

I can't find in the config docs a way to disable those icons. Would it be possible to add a config to do that (and ideally enable/disable icon groups independently so the user can e.g. enable icons for PRs but not for files or commits)?

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[stefanhaller]

Interesting; I'm usually sensitive to unnecessary noise like this, but never noticed. We have a config for file icons (and I turn them off because I find them distracting), but not for these commit icons.

I think the idea was that when nerd fonts are turned on, we should show icons in every panel, just for consistency. There are several panels where the icons are always the same and don't carry any information (stash, tags, remote branches). We used to show static icons for local branches too, but removed them when PR icons were added. Worktrees almost always show the same icon, except when a worktree's directory is missing (which is uncommon).

I could imagine that the idea of the icons was that you can tell at a glance which panel you are looking at, without looking at the panel title. Not sure that's a strong reason. Oh, and the commit icons (regular vs. merge) were added at a time where the graph was still off by default, so they did provide some value then; I agree they no longer do now that the graph always shows.

Anyway, I like the idea of adding an option for all these icons, and I will probably turn them all off myself. I'll put it on my todo list.

[bray]

I could imagine that the idea of the icons was that you can tell at a glance which panel you are looking at, without looking at the panel title. Not sure that's a strong reason.

I think I know which panel I'm on just from muscle-memory, so I agree it's not a strong reason. Although if the icon groups were separate options, everyone could customize the look how they like!

Oh, and the commit icons (regular vs. merge) were added at a time where the graph was still off by default, so they did provide some value then; I agree they no longer do now that the graph always shows.

Ah, makes sense.

Anyway, I like the idea of adding an option for all these icons, and I will probably turn them all off myself. I'll put it on my todo list.

Awesome, thanks!