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Project Support => General ElkArte discussions => Topic started by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 10:12:42 am

Title: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 10:12:42 am
Would be great to see all Elk icons migrate to Font Awesome in 1.1 stable. Any chance ?
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: emanuele on August 02, 2016, 11:15:08 am
1.1 has ditched most of the FA icons in favor of SVG files.
So, quite unlikely to happen to migrate (back) to FA.
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 11:19:22 am
I see. Then any chance to replace old day icons with " flat " ones ?
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: emanuele on August 02, 2016, 11:24:28 am
Why?
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 11:27:46 am
Looks better.
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: emanuele on August 02, 2016, 11:44:42 am
It's a rather subjective metrics, I don't like flat stuff.
Why not create a theme with flat icons?
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 11:57:44 am
There a lot of icons to change it in every theme. Everyone is going flat. So, I thought there would be many takers here as well. :)
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: emanuele on August 02, 2016, 03:23:21 pm
So material is dead?
Nobody is using it?
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 03:24:03 pm
Material is variant of Flat :P
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: emanuele on August 02, 2016, 03:51:57 pm
Well, then wouldn't be easier if you point out which icons should be changed? :P

It's nothing new I'm not a design expert and name things by the sound of words. O:-)
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: meetdilip on August 02, 2016, 04:15:18 pm
Actually, there's a lot of them. The ones with gradient/grey.
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: emanuele on August 03, 2016, 11:20:02 am
Gradient? ???
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: ahrasis on August 03, 2016, 09:10:48 pm
I guess a custom css, if not an addon, could be made for those who wish to use FA instead?
Title: Re: All icons to FA in 1.1
Post by: Bloc on August 20, 2016, 07:27:59 pm
It should not be locked into using just Font Awesome though..IcoMoon for example, is rather nice and others will be useful as well.

I agreed with ahrasis - a theme could easily use its own custom css for this. As long as most output from Sources/Controllers also has data without hardcoded icons, the theme should have no problem exchanging it into FA/IcoMoon/SVG etc. Other themes will just utilize the default output.

I am actually quite impressed with the amount of enhancements and considerations that have been done within ElkArte. :) Kudos to the devs for that! Its a breath of fresh air coming from the old SMF 2.0.x and not looking particulary forward to whats coming/has come in SMF 2.1.