Show Off Your Custom Icons in the Toolbar Buttons - STAR WAR Theme!

[Amit]

Recently I got curious about how to add custom icons to the toolbar buttons in Notepad++. While messing around, I came across this file called toolbarIcons.xml. That kinda sparked the idea—what if I used some Star Wars-themed icons just for fun? Gave it a shot and honestly, it was way easier than I thought. Had a good time playing around with it. I put together a quick video showing how it went—hope you enjoy! Please comment or let me know your feedback.

Here is the video link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGDHZMyxeQ

[PeterJones]

@Amit and other readers,

For more details, see the User Manual description of that configuration (and the comments in the toolbarIcons.xml that “no one has time to read”).

[Alan Kilborn]

@Amit

I’m happy for you that you had fun, but I don’t think random Star Wars icons make for useful toolbar buttons in Notepad++…

[notdodgeball]

Poor Greedo got to be a printing icon. Hopefully, the print quality doesn’t end up as questionable as his aim.

[MarkusBodensee]

Attention:

The feature is updated and the file toolbarIcons.xml will not be present anymore in V8.8 of Notepad++. The content of the file is merged into toolbarButtonsConf.xml. I think this is a great improvement, less places to configure something :)

Commit 4f649d2

Time for a new video @Amit …

[Amit]

@Alan-Kilborn I agree. It was kind of random icons that I could find on the theme, since my goal was to try and see how it works. If I were to do this again, more thoughtful icons, I would pick. Thank you.

[Lycan Thrope]

@Amit ,
Do keep doing your videos, though @Amit . I think it’s very helpful the way you tackle only one aspect at a time to show & tell about a subject relating to Notepad++.