Better describing the module

Our module is looking good. Why not add an icon to it to make it look even better? For this, we just need to add to the module a static/description/icon.png file with the icon to use.

We will be reusing the icon of the existing Notes application, so we should copy the odoo/addons/static/description/icon.png file into the custom-addons/todo_app/static/description directory.

The following commands should do that trick for us:

$ mkdir -p ~/odoo-dev/custom-addons/todo_app/static/description
$ cp ~/odoo-dev/odoo/addons/note/static/description/icon.png ~/odoo-dev/custom-addons/todo_app/static/description

Now, if we update the module list, our module should be displayed with the new icon.

We can also add a better description ...

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