Proposal: deprecate silk icons theme

[vmassol]

@surli

documenting that Silk should not be used anymore in new code, in favor of FA theme: this documentation should go in dev best practices, and in the documentation regarding the extension theme / icon extension. That’s what I meant first by “deprecating”

By new code, I guess you mean XS at least and also Contrib extensions. Not using it is one thing, but we continue to map new icons into the Silk icon set, right?

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!).

@surli

open a vote for stop bundling silk in a future version of XWiki and move it to contrib: as part of this change we might decide to introduce a default icon as fallback to avoid problems on older extensions

Sounds good.

Thanks

PS: I find it interesting to do the mapping for other icon sets when we want to introduce new icons for FA. It allows us to make sure the new icons are generic enough across icon sets.