is there a method for validating local icons?

[BrianZbr]

It is helpful that the README links to the FontAwesome gallery, but in my experience it's very hit-or-miss to know whether and how an icon listed there will actually work. I find "firefox", "chrome", "etsy", "product-hunt", "code-branch" and others are working as expected. However "w" doesn't show an icon at all, "water" shows a small letter s, "wind" shows a block with hex codes, etc.

I tried installing gucharmap and I'm even more confused. There seems to be no correspondence between what I see available there and what actually works with the daemon.

Any ideas, other then trial and error, in terms of how I can see exactly what icons I have available on my system?

[phsh-urs]

Hey! The following worked for me. Look in the project file fa_icons.py (namely https://github.com/cboddy/i3-workspace-names-daemon/blob/master/fa_icons.py) and search for the icon you want(you can try and guess a name, but you can also serach in FontAwesome gallery, check its unicode and then search in fa_icons.py to see if it is there).

It may happen that the icon you look for is not in fa_icons.py. What I did (in my case, I wanted to add the firefox-browser icon which, as in FontAwesome, website has unicode e007, in order to replace the "firefox" one that there is in the project), was to fork the project and and the following the line following in fa_icons.py
"firefox-browser": u"\ue007",
then I add "firefox-browser" to my app-icons.json and it worked nicely (you can check my fork https://github.com/phsh-urs/i3-workspace-names-daemon if what I sad was not clear enough).

It think it would be more organized to be able to put directly the unicode of the icon in app-icons.json, since it would avoid having to fork the project just to add some icons; but I don't know if this is posible.