Patch #23980
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 7 years ago
Icon fonts have some advantages over the classical images: - being vector graphics, they are scalable an can be resized without losing quality. - can be customized directly from CSS (size, colour, etc) - less HTTP requests to server because they are loaded only with one or a few requests. Now, Redmine make a request for each image. - some of the current custom themes already use icon fonts (Abacus theme, Minelab, PurpleMine2, our custom theme and I think the theme from plan.io). We're interested to contribute with a patch that implements the FontAwesome icons, but because there are at least two ways to implement them, we want some feedback before from Redmine contributors and/or users. 1. *Using i tags*: Advantages: * Is the recommended way on their "official page":http://fontawesome.io/examples/#basic * We can use all the build-in rules available in the FontAwesome CSS. Disadvantages: * it'll be required to add the i elements in views. 2. *Only from css* Advantages: * the views will not be modified Disadvantages: * The build-in rules must be reimplemented in the current CSS * The icons will be defined using their unicode. For example, the fa-pencil icon (similar with the current images for icon-edit) has the unicode f040. Only for demo purposes, I've attached a patch that replaces the icons from issue page with font awesome icons (using i tags).