(Feature request) Change note clone icon indicator from star to link icon

[meichthys]

Describe feature

Currently TriliumNext uses the star icon to indicate that a note is a note clone:

In most applications, the star icon is used to indicate that something is a favorite or is important.

I would propose that we use a different box icon like link-alt:

or copy (maybe not great since this so ubiquitously is used for the copy/paste action):

or outline which is similar, but maybe different enough from the copy icon(?):

or reflect-vertical:

or layer-plus:

I like the the outline icon personally since it best resembles a 'clone' and IMO is differentiated enough from the universal copy icon.

[meichthys]

On a side note, it would be neat if clicking the 'clone' icon would open the note with the "Note Paths" ribbon menu open.

[meichthys]

Or perhaps we should keep the icon the same as the "Note Paths" icon:
collection:

[Nriver]

I made it DNA.

https://github.com/Nriver/trilium-enhancement?tab=readme-ov-file#change-clone-icon

[eliandoran]

I think link-alt is a good candidate, since the whole cloning mechanism is essentially linking a note. I saw that there is some confusion regarding how this function works, we might need to rebrand it to "linking" entirely (@meichthys).

[meichthys]

I'm ok with changing it. Some ideas were discussed in zadam/trilium#1139 and zadam/trilium#4099

hard-link
linked-clone <- I suggested this one
alias
mirror <- zadam liked this one - and it's concise

IMO, mirror makes the most sense since it's short and works as a nound and a verb:
mirror this note
show note mirrors
mirror note paths
etc.

[meichthys]

I'll create an issue for this and we can continue the conversation there.