In a discussion about adding icons to the Welcome Link Banner, apgar expressed excitement about the theme but encountered issues displaying icons like far-user-group and fas-user-group. awesomerobot advised ensuring icons are added to the svg_icons setting, using only the base name (e.g., user-group), and sticking to free icons (filtered via Font Awesome’s free search). keegan added that Discourse uses Font Awesome v5.15.4, not v6.0.0, so newer icons like user-group won’t work — suggesting user-friends as a compatible alternative (filtered via v5 search). apgar confirmed the fix worked, attributing the issue to version incompatibility, and thanked both contributors, noting their preference for this minimalistic theme over alternatives.
This is wonderful! You’re truly awesome @awesomerobot!
I do have a question regarding svg_icons. I tried to add the regular and solid ones on the list (e.g. far-user-group and fas-user-group), but whenever I hit preview, it doesn’t seem to appear on the banner. Am I missing a step here? Thanks!
A few things that may help:
svg_icons setting, if the icon does not appear you may need to add the name here (Discourse doesn’t include every font awesome icon by default, but this setting will add them)user-group should workA small point to add onto @awesomerobot’s comments,
FontAwesome recently updated their icon set to version 6.0.0 and as a result there were new icons added and some icons had their names slightly changed.
I believe Discourse is still using version 5.15.4, which is why you may be seeing the issue as the user-group icon does not exist in that version. Perhaps you might want to use user-friends as its a similar icon.
You can filter by v5 by using this link:
Aha! This did the trick. It’s the version not being compatible. Thanks @keegan!
And of course, thank you again for this theme component @awesomerobot. I was debating on whether to get this or the versatile banner, but ultimately decided to go with the minimalistic view on the former.