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Add ability to show emoji as icon

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the notify CLI's handling of the -i option and inspect how node-notifier receives image values. Determine how an emoji such as 👍 could be accepted as the main notification image, then verify that the example command produces the expected notification without requiring a manually supplied base64 string.

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Description

I would like emoji to be shown as main notification image. Something like that: notify -t 'Hello' -m 'My message' -i '👍'. Would it be possible?

I've discovered, that base64 image string works perfectly, but text of encoded image in base64 is very long. So, I've also tried to find any other cli tool which could convert emoji symbol to base64 image, so I could pass that into notify, but I haven't found any :(

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
153
Forks
16
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