Yes, setting tree-widget-image-enable to t makes recentf-open-file work
correctly in my system, too.

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 20:37, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrea Greselin <greselin.andrea@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes it does! Thank you!
> >
> > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 16:30, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I guess the problem is that tree-widget-image-enable is set just once on
> >> load, based on the current display (and the daemon has no display so it
> >> doesn't support displaying images).  Does it help to explicitly set
> >> tree-widget-image-enable to non-nil?
>
> Looks like we could solve this bug just by making
> tree-widget-image-enable default to t unconditionally then.  It seems to
> do the right thing in that case, e.g., I tried
>
>     ;; from
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25104291/change-text-of-tree-widget-node
>     (widget-create
>      'tree-widget :open t :tag "one"
>      :args
>      (list (widget-convert
>             'tree-widget
>             :tag "two"
>             :args (mapcar (apply-partially #'widget-convert 'item)
>                           '("three" "four")))))
>
> it shows image when looking at it in a graphic frame, and text when
> looking at the same buffer in a tty frame.
>
>