Font Awesome Manager 1.2.7

[Kirby]

If it's not possible to autodetect it, the default should probably be changed to star.

That doesn't make much sense to me.

Assuming XenForo default style, default options and style property values for Font Awesome Manager and Alerts Improvements are used you've got the following situation:

Alert Improvements uses FA icons star and star-exclamation in Solid weight while the default FA weight is Regular.

Using icons in a foreign weight (Solid) is less efficient than using them in the native weight of the style (Regular).

FAM therefore (somewhat intentionally and partly due to being almost impossible in some cases) does not use scan results for such foreign weight icons but only considers them for icons used in native weight.

Options to fix this (sorted by most efficient / recommended to least efficient / not recommended)

1. Use icons in native weight
   In this specific case this would be far fa-star and far fa-star-exclamation
2. Force creating a subset of the foreign weight icons by manually adding them to the appropriate list
   In this specific case this would be star and star-exclamation as Solid Icons
3. Achieve the same effect as 2) by temporarily enabling option Automatically add missing icons
4. Disable style property Only use CSS for selected weight
   If this option is disabled definitions for all scanned icons will be available for all weights - at the expense of larger / unused CSS and larger / more font resources to load.
5. Change style property Font awesome weight so it matches the weight of the icons
   In this specific case this would mean changing the weight to Solid

All this is explained in the FAQ.

 

[MaximilianKohler]

Alert Improvements uses FA icons star and star-exclamation in Solid weight while the default FA weight is Regular.

Using icons in a foreign weight (Solid) is less efficient than using them in the native weight of the style (Regular).

I did read the FAQ before but I didn't understand the weight aspect of it. Looking at the FAQ again, it's probably because far is not mentioned there at all. For example, this explanation you just gave is very helpful and is not in the FAQ:

Use icons in native weight
In this specific case this would be far fa-star and far fa-star-exclamation

After reading the FAQ, I had/have no clue what fa, far, etc. are, given that there's no mention of them.

 

[smallwheels]

After reading the FAQ, I had/have no clue what fa, far, etc. are, given that there's no mention of them.

If I understand the notation correctly fa ist simply "font awesome" far ist "font awesome regular" fas "font awesome solid" and so on.

 

[smallwheels]

Hi @Kriby: Im am using the subfonter variant in your addon and do have some issues with adding certain icons. I.e. if I want to add the "circle-plus" (which should be free)

Circle Plus Classic Solid Icon | Font Awesome

Circle Plus icon in the Solid style. Make a bold statement in small sizes. Available now in Font Awesome 6 Pro.

fontawesome.com

in Font Awesome Manager I get this message:



Had this with a couple of icons, all free, all with a dash in their name (Probably conicidently). Adding other icons worked flawlessy (i.e. plus w/o the circle). Any idea what may be causing this or even how to solve this?

 

[bzcomputers]

Hi @Kriby: Im am using the subfonter variant in your addon and do have some issues with adding certain icons. I.e. if I want to add the "circle-plus" (which should be free)

Circle Plus Classic Solid Icon | Font Awesome

Circle Plus icon in the Solid style. Make a bold statement in small sizes. Available now in Font Awesome 6 Pro.

fontawesome.com

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in Font Awesome Manager I get this message:

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Had this with a couple of icons, all free, all with a dash in their name (Probably conicidently). Adding other icons worked flawlessy (i.e. plus w/o the circle). Any idea what may be causing this or even how to solve this?

XenForo uses FontAwesome 5.x (not 6.x), circle-plus does not exist in version 5.x.

 

[Forsaken]

I did read the FAQ before but I didn't understand the weight aspect of it. Looking at the FAQ again, it's probably because far is not mentioned there at all. For example, this explanation you just gave is very helpful and is not in the FAQ:



After reading the FAQ, I had/have no clue what fa, far, etc. are, given that there's no mention of them.

Those are things specific to font awesome, and what separate icons into icon sets.

 

[smallwheels]

XenForo uses FontAwesome 5.x (not 6.x), circle-plus does not exist in version 5.x.

That is indeed a pretty good reason, thanks!

 

[bzcomputers]

That is indeed a pretty good reason, thanks!

FYI, you would be able to use that version 6 icon in XenForo 2.3+. You can download any "free" version 6 font awesome .svg and add it to the appropriate directory in XenForo. In this case it is a solid icon, so... /styles/fa/solid/circle-plus.svg

 

[Dkf]

I checked the page load statistics.
In first place, with almost 1 million downloads in two weeks, is some address from this plugin.
Is this how it should be?



ХF 2.2.13

 

[Kirby]

@Dkf
I don't understand that language (whatever it is?), but the HTTP POST /kirby-kam/missing-icons happens if there are missing icons and option Automatically add missing icons is enabled (which should not be enabled on production systems).

Font Awesome Manager - Extra info

xenforo.com

 

[Dkf]

@Dkf
I don't understand that language (whatever it is?), but the HTTP POST /kirby-kam/missing-icons happens if there are missing icons and option Automatically add missing icons is enabled (which should not be enabled on production systems).

Font Awesome Manager - Extra info

xenforo.com

How to find out which icon is missing?
Should the plugin replace the missing file or not?
Why are there so many 404 requests?