Dolibarr: Add Font Awesome support

[jfefe]

Feature Request

Implement the iconic font and CSS toolkit : http://fontawesome.io/

Font Awesome is a full suite of 675 pictographic icons for easy scalable vector graphics on websites.

[eldy]

I planned to add "octicons". It is a set of svg icons. Also the svg file of fontawesome seems to not be compatible with inkscape. Also, with octicon, you don't need to manipulate a font file, you have directly one image .svg file per icon making things easier to use/edit them.

[gnovaro]

Create a custom web font with other existing projects and SVG support
http://fontastic.me/

[jfefe]

@eldy : seems to be a nice project but a smaller than Font Awesome (at the moment).
I think we need two sort of icons : those for menus/titles and those for calling action buttons. For this usage we don't need to modify them because we want the advantage of something working out the box…

My 2 cents : SVG file is perfect for menus and Font Awesome is nice for buttons.

[gnovaro]

Maybe can use http://glyphicons.com/ have and SVG version.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:11 AM, jfefe [e-mail] wrote:

@eldy https://github.com/eldy : seems to be a nice project but a
smaller than Font Awesome (at the moment).
I think we need two sort of icons : those for menus/titles and those for
calling action buttons. For this usage we don't need to modify them because
we want the advantage of something working out the box…

My 2 cents : SVG file is perfect for menus and Font Awesome is nice for
buttons.

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[gnovaro]

Sory only PRO version have SVG

Maybe can use http://glyphicons.com/ have and SVG version.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:11 AM, jfefe [e-mail] wrote:

@eldy https://github.com/eldy : seems to be a nice project but a
smaller than Font Awesome (at the moment).
I think we need two sort of icons : those for menus/titles and those for
calling action buttons. For this usage we don't need to modify them because
we want the advantage of something working out the box…

My 2 cents : SVG file is perfect for menus and Font Awesome is nice for
buttons.

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[aljawaid]

Would somehow switching to bootstrap not solve this issue? It would definitely give the interface a newer look and be more user friendly.

Just an opinion.

[gnovaro]

I think @aljawaidis right, we do not need to reinvent the wheel and we should adopt the standard in the industry. I understand that the ideal would be to use svg and have its own font, but if dolibarr runs in a browser or in mobile with png would reach us. We would focus on what really matters, and we do not waste so much time on the UI.

[rdoursenaud]

I'm a bit late to the party but let me add my grain of salt ;)

For the MD theme I used the material design icons provided by Google and the community: https://material.io/icons/
The SVGs are nice to work with and there's also an icon font.
The look and feel is very good IMHO but I'm certainly biased since I work with Google products a lot.
In the end, I believe this is up to theme designers to decide and/or provide alternatives.

@aljawaid No need to embed the huge and ugly bootstrap. The fonts are from https://glyphicons.com/ which is yet another (already cited) alternative.

@gnovaro Looking at the plethora of alternatives, I don't believe there is any standard in this field. Sure there are some players with bigger shares but I don't think this is the only thing to take into account when deciding to invest in a dependency. For example, Dolibarr being a GPLv3 project, the license is probably the first issue to tackle.

The issue should really be titled "Provide a font icon" :p

My 2 cents.

[gnovaro]

I understand the license. Maybe we can use others alternatives like: Foundation or Material UI, We reinvent the wheel. And we lose focus on functionality. Having a grid work with divs instead of tables, making the responsive layout much easier and improve frontend, clean code.