Looking forward to category and tag icons as a first-class feature!

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Continuing the discussion from Removing the legacy hamburger navigation menu option:

@tgxworld

In the long run though, we are discussing internally to make custom category and tag icons a first class Discourse feature. Once that happens, the category icons and tag icons theme components will no longer be required

I’m looking forward to that. I personally find that having a stronger visual distinguisher really helps. And the current configuration is very clunky.

A few ideas, which you may already have thought about, but just in case:

• With this as a first class feature, it’d be nice for it to apply to category (and I guess tag) references in posts (like feature or support).

• for tags, please make it possible to configure per tag group. I can’t see using this for individual tags, but tag groups would be handy.