Use taxonomy image field as filter options

Hello,

I'm using views-isotope for a travel site and would like to replace the taxonomy terms in the filter block by images that come from a taxonomy image field.

I've come to the conclusion that this is not possible due to the way views-isotope uses the taxonomy terms as filter classes.

So i added the taxonomy name and image fields in the filter block, and wrote probably one of the worst php hacks ever (i'm not a drupal dev) so filter classes are created from taxonomy terms which will be stripped from final output:

In file views-isotope-filter-block.tpl.php i added the following after line 15:

		// Detect presence of an image
		if (strpos($row, '<img'))
		{
			// Strip the taxonomy term from row and rewrite it as filter class
			$row_field = explode("<img", $row);
			$filter_class = trim(strip_tags(strtolower($row_field[0])));
			$filter_class = str_replace(' ', '-', $filter_class);
			$filter_class = str_replace('/', '-', $filter_class);
			$filter_class = ".".str_replace('&amp;', '', $filter_class);

			// Use the filter class
			$isotope_filter_classes[$count] = $filter_class;

			// Inject only the image tag in the row
			$row = "<img".$row_field[1];
		}

Is there any chance to see that kind of feature in a next release without my hack ?

Regards,
Ozy.