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Elk Development => Feature Discussion => Topic started by: TE on December 23, 2015, 01:44:48 am

Title: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: TE on December 23, 2015, 01:44:48 am
Font Awesome is cool, but It's IMHO their developers are to slow with new icons these days..

I'd personally switch to material design icons.
https://materialdesignicons.com/
Title: Re: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: meetdilip on December 23, 2015, 04:11:28 am
Good thing to do.
Title: Re: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: ahrasis on December 23, 2015, 05:12:49 am
What's that? I personally prefer font awesome for the time being.
Title: Re: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: meetdilip on December 23, 2015, 05:31:03 am
Only problem I foresee is hard to choose the icon we need from such a big collection.
Title: Re: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on December 23, 2015, 10:54:01 am
And some Material Design theme changes? :D
Title: Re: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: Spuds on December 23, 2015, 03:50:01 pm
Thats a much better collection of icons for sure ... if we were to do this swap I'd also be inclined to replace most of the UI png icons  with these since we will find replacement ones to use.  I had started to do this with FA some time ago as a test, should be a post about it somewhere.  Either way, the change would be easy, but would mess with some mods since its mdi-xxx vs fa-xxx on the <i> tags.

We also need to (in 1.1) provide an easy way to update to the latest collection, right now we do it as part of maintenance releases but thats awkward at best. 

edit by ema: nobbc'ed the i tag otherwise it was hidden.
Title: Re: 1.1: replace font awesome with Material Design Icons?
Post by: Keiro on December 26, 2015, 03:50:20 am
Quote from: Spuds – Thats a much better collection of icons for sure ... if we were to do this swap I'd also be inclined to replace most of the UI png icons  with these since we will find replacement ones to use.  I had started to do this with FA some time ago as a test, should be a post about it somewhere.  Either way, the change would be easy, but would mess with some mods since its mdi-xxx vs fa-xxx on the <i> tags.

We also need to (in 1.1) provide an easy way to update to the latest collection, right now we do it as part of maintenance releases but thats awkward at best. 

Lazy way? Symlink fa-xxx to mdi-xxx.

Probably also the best way to sidestep trouble until you can do it properly.

Edit: wtf, my comments're italicized. It was not italicized. O_o

edit by ema: nobbc'ed the i tag in the quote (see previous post by Spuds).