Custom Loading Spinner Component

meghna · January 2, 2021, 2:44pm

While working on the Grogu theme I implemented a custom loading icon for that theme and thought it would be cool to have a standalone component to customize the loading spinner icon.

This component allows staff to customize the default spinning icon. There are three customization options available via theme settings:

icon name
icon size
icon color

The component only accepts FontAwesome icon name and I recommend picking one of these icons to get awesome spinning effect.

Enjoy, and do let me know how to further improve this component.


	Preview	Preview on theme creator
	Github Repo	discourse-custom-loading-spinner
	Install Guide	How to install a theme or theme component

ondrejj · January 2, 2021, 2:53pm

Hello just installed this! An improvement that you could make is to add another colour for dark theme as the colour you choose for light such as #000000 will not be seen on a dark theme.

meghna · January 2, 2021, 2:57pm

That’s exactly why the color is customizable via theme setting custom icon color.

ondrejj · January 2, 2021, 3:02pm

No what I mean is that is that the icon colour should invert depending on whether you are on a light or dark theme automatically.

My light theme background is #F0F0F0 and my dark theme background is #000000

Therefore it is difficult to find a colour that contrasts well. I want it to be a white icon on dark theme and a black one on light theme.
Thanks

meghna · January 2, 2021, 4:11pm

For automatic icon colour switching based on theme colours – do not specify any value in custom icon color theme setting.

I have now made this default behaviour via:

ondrejj · January 2, 2021, 3:59pm

Brilliant! Thank you @meghna

MrDavis97 · February 23, 2021, 9:25pm

I love this theme-component, and it works great on the home page. However, in some areas of my discourse instance, it shows the default loading spinner. For example, whenever I’m in the admin panel or user settings. @meghna Any way this can be fixed?