[Feature Suggestion] Package icons and customization features ?

[g2eat]

Hi I had some ideas and was wondering they are already available, or if you would consider adding them in the future.

1. Add Icons next to the packages like winstall, chocolatey and ninite.
   So it would work like this, instead of the box Icon you already have, the package icon replace if the icon is available.
   It would be a useful feature because it much easier to find package with the icon rather than just text.

2. Idea I had was have a section to show the type of app it is example Firefox - browser.

3. Short description of app.

4 By (Publisher or Author) - This would also give people peace of mind, its from a trustworthy source.

all the above features could be enabled and disabled in the setting giving everyone a choice.
The Icons, short description and publisher are all already available when you click show info but it would be a little easy for a quick look and install option.

[marticliment]

This was discused earlier, but due lost of icons missing and the huge amount of packages shown, this would saturate the program and be way inefficient

[g2eat]

Thanks you for the reply

Sorry I'm not a developer so I thought it would be simpler, I assumed you used something similar to what is used by winstall to get the package data and info.

I dont know maybe you could try and speak to guy from winstall him via his personal website, I think he uses an API to do this maybe he would allow access to the API or maybe work with you, since the guy from winstall mostly focuses on the website side and you focus on a app,.

Just a thought

[Spacellary]

Marti already tried formal contact in this omaha-consulting/winstall#129, it's yet to be responded...

[marticliment]

he didn't answer me neither, he might not be interested in collaborating...

[g2eat]

Thanks guys,

I took a look at that and a few others but I cant see any replies from him on any of them, the last thing I have seen from him was from 2021, either he has abandoned the project or just does not reply.

Maybe a direct email would be better [meh@builtbymeh.com]
A last try to see if it possible

[Spacellary]

Emailing worked! He did reply to the issue (omaha-consulting/winstall#129), @marticliment!

:D

[g2eat]

Was this ever implemented ? A year on and I still can see the icons, unless its something on my end.

[g2eat]

Ok, is that also the reason for not having the Icon on the outside,
like this

instead of this

also did the info from winstall ( MehediH ) not help to get the icons to get all the icons ?

[marticliment]

No, their Icon API is closed

[g2eat]

Ok, no issues, I thought it was open from the reply that was sent.

*the winstall API doesn't do anything fancy to for the icon engine - I simply use this npm library https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-website-favicon to get an app's website icon, then find the best resolution favicon file, and use that as the icon for the app.

this is then downloaded and saved in the winstall backend*

[marticliment]

Better icon integrations are on the works (both for WinGet and for all the NuGet-based package managers, so this will not be a requirement anymore)

[g2eat]

Looking forward to the future of the project.