Category Icons

[volanar]

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

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@carson

This update has not yet been merged, it only exists as a separate branch in the repository at the moment. I will submit a PR soon by next week to merge it without breaking any existing configurations. Thank you for your kind feedback!

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

[carson]

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

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

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

[volanar]

Does anyone know when this will happen so as not to use this component in a new project?

FEATURE: Use new experimental plugin API for sidebar

[Moin]

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.

@awesomerobot

The category icons component will need to be refactored, we can work on that before this update happens.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

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.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

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?

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@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?

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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 ↩︎