Index: taxonomy_image.admin.inc
===================================================================
--- taxonomy_image.admin.inc	(revision 26)
+++ taxonomy_image.admin.inc	(working copy)
@@ -58,6 +58,35 @@
     '#description' => t('Subdirectory in the directory "%dir" where category pictures will be stored. Lower case is recommended. ', array('%dir' => $files_path)) . $error,
     );
 
+  if (module_exists('embed_views')) {
+    $views = array();
+    foreach (views_get_all_views() as $view_name => $view) {
+      // Don't list default views in the selection options
+      if ($view->type == 'Default') {
+        continue;
+      }
+      foreach ($view->display as $display_name => $display) {
+        $views[$view_name . '__' . $display_name] = "$view_name $display_name";
+      }
+    }
+
+    $form['general']['taxonomy_image_view'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'fieldset',
+      '#title' => t('Taxonomy view settings'),
+    );
+    $form['general']['taxonomy_image_view']['taxonomy_image_use_views'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'checkbox',
+      '#title' => t('Use a view to select the term images'),
+      '#default_value' => variable_get('taxonomy_image_use_views', NULL),
+    );
+    $form['general']['taxonomy_image_view']['taxonomy_image_view'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'select',
+      '#title' => 'Select the view',
+      '#options' => $views,
+      '#default_value' => variable_get('taxonomy_image_view', NULL),
+    );
+  }
+
   $form['general']['taxonomy_image_disable'] = array(
     '#type' => 'textarea',
     '#rows' => 1,
Index: taxonomy_image.module
===================================================================
--- taxonomy_image.module	(revision 26)
+++ taxonomy_image.module	(working copy)
@@ -98,7 +98,10 @@
             // Make sure the attributes don't try to override the preset.
             unset($attributes['width'], $attributes['height']);
             $mypath = variable_get('taxonomy_image_path', 'category_pictures') .'/';
-            $return_url = theme('imagecache', $preset, $mypath . $current->path, $current->name, $current->title, $attributes);
+            // If 'fullpath' is set then don't use the standard
+            // category_pictures path
+            $mypath = $current->fullpath ? $current->path : $mypath . $current->path;
+            $return_url = theme('imagecache', $preset, $mypath, $current->name, $current->title, $attributes);
           }
       }
       if ($wrapper) {
@@ -243,6 +246,22 @@
     if ($image[$tid] = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT i.path, d.name, d.description FROM {term_image} i INNER JOIN {term_data} d USING(tid) WHERE i.tid=%d', $tid))) {
       $image[$tid]->url = file_create_url($mypath . $image[$tid]->path);
     }
+    elseif (variable_get('taxonomy_image_use_views', FALSE)) {
+      // Use the specified view to set the taxonomy image
+      list($view_id, $display_id) = explode('__', variable_get('taxonomy_image_view', ''));
+      $view = views_get_view($view_id);
+      $result = $view->preview($display_id, $tid);
+      $result = strip_tags($result);
+      // Remove the admin links
+      $result = preg_replace('/Export|Edit|Clone/', '', $result);
+      // Remove extra whitespace
+      $result = trim($result);
+      if ($result) {
+        $image[$tid]->path = $result;
+        $image[$tid]->url = url($image[$tid]->path);
+        $image[$tid]->fullpath = TRUE;
+      }
+    }
     elseif ($recursive) {
       // Walk up the taxonomy hierarchy and look for an image.
       $orig = $tid;
@@ -265,8 +284,13 @@
   if (!empty($image[$tid]->path)) {
     $image[$tid]->tid = $tid;
     $image[$tid]->vid = $term->vid;
-    $img = getimagesize($fullpath . $image[$tid]->path);
+    if ($image[$tid]->fullpath) {
+      $img = getimagesize($image[$tid]->path);
+    }
+    else {
+      $img = getimagesize($fullpath . $image[$tid]->path);
 //    $img = getimagesize($image[$tid]->url);
+    }
     // Make sure it worked.
     if (!$img) {
       return NULL;