Not a bug Some Font-Awesome icons are not working in 2.1...

[Jaxel]

Affected version

2.1

Example:

Font Awesome

fontawesome.com

 

[mcatze]

In FA5 it should be fab- and not only fa-

 

[Jaxel]

fa-discord does not work either.

 

[Jaxel]

fab-wikipedia-w didn't work either. fa-wikipedia-w worked in XF2.0

 

[Mike]

You can see from the page you linked to that this is a brand icon and so you need the "fab" descriptor with it: fab fa-wikipedia-w

Some icons are moved in Font Awesome 5 and it is not 100% compatible with FA4's names or organizations.

 

[Jaxel]

That worked. Thanks Mike.

 

[Jaxel]

Additional question... is it required to use far fa-calendar-alt, or can we just use fa-calendar-alt by itself? Will there be deprecation issues down the line?

 

[Jaxel]

Also, while fab fa-wikipedia-w works in the options tree... it doesn't seem to work in addon.json

{
    "legacy_addon_id": "EWRcarta",
    "title": "[8WR] XenCarta 2 (Wiki) PRO",
    "description": "Light-weight, cache-able wiki. Add-on from 8WAYRUN.",
    "version_id": 2010,
    "version_string": "2.0.1.0",
    "dev": "Jaxel",
    "dev_url": "https://xenforo.com/community/resources/authors/1295/",
    "faq_url": "https://xenforo.com/community/resources/6393/field?field=faq",
    "support_url": "https://xenforo.com/community/resources/6393/",
    "extra_urls": [],
    "require": [],
    "icon": "fab fa-wikipedia-w"
}

 

[Mike]

If you specify fas/far/fal explicitly, then you're guaranteed to have that particular weight. Otherwise, the weight may depend on the style's choice (though in the ACP, that's less relevant).

The add-on icon might be a bug, though I think you can workaround that by putting the modifier type at the end. Saying that, though it is just a "W" icon, using a brand icon to represent your product (which isn't by that brand) probably isn't ideal, so you may wish to reconsider your icon here.

 

[Snog]

@Mike ... Any chance of 2 icon definitions in the addon.json file?

One for XF 2.0 and one for XF 2.1. I'm finding many of the "free" font awesome icons have been renamed in the Pro font awsome system, so they don't work for both XF 2.0 and XF 2.1.

For instance fa-television is now fa-tv

Perhaps something like
"icon": "fa-television",
"icon1": "fa-tv"