You can use [image] Category Icons Theme component warning This theme component is deprecated and should no longer be used. Its features are now in Discourse Core (see: Bringing popular features to Discourse). For private category icon customization, refer to this topic. discourse2 Summary Category Icons allows category badge links to have icons next to the category name. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-icons … [Screenshot_20240614_081849_Chrome]

Interesting. That doesn’t work for me. And hasn’t ever worked.

Did you define a color? [image] Icons don't show up in the sidebar then the color isn't defined UX Love that icons show on the sidebar now! sunny sunglasses What seems a small glitch: Icons don’t show, when the color is not defined. E.g. on this screenshot the first category has an icon defined, but no color. Then the icon is not shown: [image] The downside to defining all icons with colors is that icons then won’t show with inherited colors on the list views (accent when the topic is unread/ dimmed down when the topic is read). E.g. here the Announcements icon shows with inherited co…

Where the heck do I set that :flushed_face: On category icon component, of course. Damn I’m in slow mode today. But now you said that I have a weak memory print I didn’t use colors because then category nav bar was too reckless. And ’cos about 95 % of my users are typical end user with mobiles, no one uses sidebar. So this isn’t any bigger thing in my circles. But good to know, thanks!

hahaha, I fotget to close the topic, I have found this theme component in library. still thanks! Is there any place to close the topic here?

#support topics which are solved are automatically closed [Screenshot_20240614_102428_Chrome] In addition, leaders can close topics manually when needed.

[image] Zard W.: hahaha, I fotget to close the topic, I have found this theme component in library. still thanks! Is there any place to close the topic here? Why are these two posts automatically categorized together? :thinking:

You can click the pen icon to see changes to your posts: [image]

I sent two replies, but now they are merged to one.

[image] Zard W.: automatically That wasn’t done automatically but by a moderator. [Screenshot_20240614_120132_Chrome]

[image] Moin: That wasn’t done automatically but by a moderator. all right! it’s so fast! :grinning:

Can the background color in front of the navs in the sidebar be changed to a small icon?

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manuel (Manuel Kostka) June 14, 2024, 10:52am 15

Thanks for the reminder Just picked this up and did a PR so icons are rendered with the default category color when there’s no color defined on the component.

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Can the background color in front of the navs in the sidebar be changed to a small icon?

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