Category Icons

Hi! Is there any update news? It’s very interesting what happened

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What is the state of this? I’d love to move beyond fontawesome.

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It hasn’t been merged, but you’re free to install the repository and use my branch in the meanwhile. :no_mouth:

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Thanks! I’ll wait until the new menu work for our site is done, and then try it in staging. :slight_smile:

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Does anyone know when this will happen so as not to use this component in a new project?
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I would just use the component. In Moving to a Single Category Style Site Setting there were questions about category icons and this does not sound like they will become part of core untill the release of Discourse 3.2.

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Yes, to confirm I’ve just merged an update to this component to make it compatible with Moving to a Single Category Style Site Setting

The update will be available for sites on version Discourse 3.2.0.beta4-dev or later, thanks to Pinning plugin and theme versions for older Discourse installs (.discourse-compatibility)

Since this is pinned to a version rather than a specific commit… if you’re already on Discourse 3.2.0.beta4-dev and are experiencing issues with this component, you may need to update Discourse again today.

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I never did get a chance to try your branch, but hope to come back to this. Any more news on whether this will become official?

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@carson Got a chance to play with this a bit. Looks basically good, except:

  1. Icons in category-select drop-down are not in color
  2. Doesn’t work in the new menu
  3. If you enable “Use the category’s uploaded logo as its icon”:
    a. it only affects the category-select drop-down
    b. not shown by the category itself
    c. and also if this is on, the category-select drop-drop down only shows these icons
  4. Icons seem larger than they were in the previous theme. Maybe it would be nice to have a setting?

Also, some nice-to-haves:

  • option to hide the category lock icon, not just set it to some other thing[1]
  • If category logo is used, option to hide the big category logo on the categories page?

  1. I find it adds a lot of visual noise and not a lot of value because it doesn’t tell you how the category is restricted ↩︎

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