LanMan to allow individual drive icons

It would be nice if LanMan (and LanMan98, come to that) could optionally allow each disc to specify an icon. The present icons are, more or less, “beige boxes” which don’t represent what my NAS drives look like.

Yes, I know, it’s only visual fluff; but it’s the only bit of visual fluff in the entire OS-and-apps that I care about. And it strikes me it shouldn’t be difficult to implement.

It would be nice to be able to do it in a filer-agnostic manner – minimal code needed to add to each filer, and user-friendly configuration handled by a filer-agnostic Configure plugin.

My initial thought was to use system variables to indicate the name of a sprite to use (held in the Wimp sprite pool). But then I realised the sprite names would have to be chosen carefully to avoid the potential for conflict. So maybe a small helper module which manages its own pool(s) of sprites would make more sense, with a SWI interface to allow filers (or other customisable systems?) to lookup sprites.

If code is needed to add to each filer anyway, how about a more generic approach to the whole “Filer” module idea. A bit like Filecore instantiation. Or a standard to discover “actions” and “information” about a filing system and its drives, so that any 3rd party filer icon manager could be a full replacement?