How to insert inline icons in WYSWIG editor? 🤯

[metawiki]

Hi folks,

I’m starting to feel stupid here. I think checked every piece of documentation at hands, but I can’t get to grips with this really simple thing (and I don’t seem to be the first and only one, here):

I want to insert an icon inline into the WYSIWIG editor in a comfortable manner.

I have the Icon Themes, Icon Picker Macro and Fontawesome etc. installed.

I can insert the icon picker macro – but why should I insert that into every article where I want to use a macro?

✘ I’m missing a editor toolbar button that opens a list of available icons of my chosen icon theme.
or a helpful auto-suggest when typing [[icon: or similar.

When I use the “insert image” dialogue and choose the “Icon” tab, i have to know the icon name by heart – there’s no picker! (But also, there does not seem to be an auto-generated list of the icons in my wiki – do I have to go to fontawesome.com and load their bloated icon lookup? That can’t be it! I found this list, but that’s generic, rather hidden and aged)

When I guess or enter an icon name there and click “insert”, the dialog requires even more clicks to answer image positioning etc.

or are you planning on dropping Icon support in favour of emojis? (My bad that our DB is not yet UTF8MB4 and save page crashes when I use emojis).

Please help: What am I missing here?

Cheers

[vmassol]

@metawiki

When I use the “insert image” dialogue and choose the “Icon” tab, i have to know the icon name by heart – there’s no picker! (But also, there does not seem to be an auto-generated list of the icons in my wiki – do I have to go to fontawesome.com and load their bloated icon lookup? That can’t be it! I found this list, but that’s generic, rather hidden and aged)

Yes you could create some jira issues to improve this. I see 2 places where this is missing:

1. in the icon macro in the WYSIWYG
2. in the new image dialog in the Icon tab

@metawiki

I can insert the icon picker macro – but why should I insert that into every article where I want to use a macro?

You should instead insert the icon macro (but it doesn’t offer a suggest either unfortunately).

@metawiki

That can’t be it! I found this list, but that’s generic, rather hidden and aged)

I think it’s the most up to date we have but I agree that it should be moved to the reference documentation proper and not be in the design wiki anymore! That’s the place I use to know the names ATM…

@metawiki

or are you planning on dropping Icon support in favour of emojis?

Not that I know of.

[vmassol]

Future idea from @mflorea : also add a quick action for inserting an icon (see Quick Actions (Proposal.QuickActions) - XWiki). I’ve created a jira for it: Loading...

[metawiki]

Thanks @vmassol for your quick reply.
I’m looking into creating Jira issues for these things in the next days, as you suggest