Old iconography in AWM creation process

[tkrieck]

Hi @amilica thank you very much for the proposal. These icons definitely should be updated.

@amilica

Do you have another suggestion for the number icon from the IconTheme or from the full FontAwsome list?

The calculator one seems to be the closest one currently available on the IconTheme. But for me, it reminds a lot of calculated fields, operations. FA has a hash icon that I’ve seen used as a number icon sometimes Hashtag Classic Solid Icon | Font Awesome. IMO this warrants an inclusion on the IconTheme as hashtag being mapped to fa-hashtag

The icon fa-list-olis not very good IMO because it can give the impression of a Numbered List, which is not the case, and we have a “List” type already on the page that would reinforce the interpretation of another type of list.

@amilica

I think I have it from @tkrieck , he probably had it saved

Yeap, my bad. I’ve updated my bookmark as well. Thanks @vmassol

@MichaelHamann

What would also be good is if you could show how the chosen icons look in the Silk icon theme as we need to make sure that AWM is usable with both icon themes that we include in XS.

Most of the ones @amilica is proposing to update are from the Silk theme, but probably are hard coded. Those that are not from Silk are used in the sidebar with the field types (Short text, Long Text, Number, etc) and also have a label there, so it would be usable even without icons.

Overall, I really like the proposal, thanks @amilica =)

Below are my some thoughts on Silk and the IconTheme and probably should be on another topic, but I will put them here as they were mentioned.

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Regarding Silk

@vmassol

In the meantime, I’ve clarified what sets we support and it seems it’s only Silk and FA. I’ve updated the doc accordingly, see

Can we just drop the table columns about Glyphicon and Elusive? Their presence on the page might give the impression that they are well supported (even if the text says otherwise).

Regarding Silk, wasn’t it deprecated already? I am talking about this comment on another topic:

@vmassol

BTW this is already the case (not to use Silk) and we’ve already been migrating to FA over the years. I don’t think we have used Silk anywhere else since we introduced FA, as, when we introduced FA we effectively deprecated Silk back then. So for me we don’t need a proposal for this (but it’s ok to reiterate it, no harm done!).

Topic:

Proposal: deprecate silk icons theme

Hi everyone, this topic is a fork of the proposal originally made by @CharpentierLucas on Proposal: add icons to the XWiki Icon Set. As part of this proposal Lucas said: Unfortunately, silk was created in 2005 and not updated for a long time, so there’s some huge holes in its icon theme cover. When checking out a list of the icons in silk, I could not find anything closer to those we would expect for those actions. So I proposed that we deprecate the Silk theme in future version of XWiki: …

So from my point of view, current mapping of Silks are OK, but should be migrated eventually (and @amilica is helping us with this proposal), but no new mappings should be made on it. If this is the case, then it would be good to have a notice of the deprecation on the IconTheme page. WDYT?

If Silk and FA are our officially supported ones, but Silk is being deprecated, that makes FA our only official set on the IconTheme. Which is a big plus for me but would be nice to have this oficial.