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Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe.

Not a problem

Describe the solution you'd like

I thought it could be nice to be able to have an autocomplete (or a separate search function in a modal) feature when creating/editing an item, to avoid manually looking for something in the ever-growing supported icon list.

Pardon my (lack of) UX/UI skills, something like this could be an option:

Priority

Low (Nice-to-have)

Is this something you would be keen to implement

Maybe

Yeah, this is a great idea.

I think I'd need to create a separate (hosted online) service to index all of the options, as it wouldn't be efficient to store that data within Dashy.

The separate service would be a simple API which indexes and caches a list of all icons, then Dashy would send a GET request on keyup with a search term, and it would format and return the names of all icons that what the users typed so far. Some icon packs (font-awesome, material-design-icons, and simple-icons) are only loaded into the app if the user is actually using them, so to render the previews maybe the API would also need to return thumbnails.

Definitely feasible, but quite a bit of work for what the feature is. So will mark as low priority, and I'll probably wait until everything on the current roadmap is completed before starting on this.

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