Font Awesome update in the panel (4.4)

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I just checked the Font Awesome version, which was used in the panel (Kirby 2.1) and it was 4.2.0

But the actual version of Font Awesome is 4.4.0 - so we’re missing a lot of icons (I needed the .fa-diamond icon, which is not included in 4.2.0).

So I updated the Font Awesome version myself (simply with a @import in my customized panel.css).

Will Kirby 2.2.0 include the newest version of Font Awesome?

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(diamonds in the sky… well, at least in the upper-right corner)

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I just updated the 2.2 beta to fontawesome 4.4 :smile:

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Cool :smile:

I already thought so, but I did not want to develop with the nightly bèta - so I’m “stuck” with 2.1.0, but can enjoy all my new icons right now (and I’ll wait patiently for the final release of 2.2.0).

Keep up the good work, amazing!

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@bastianallgeier:
Thank you very much!

In Kirby 2.2.3 the two font files are updated to 4.5.0 but the css file \panel\assets\css\panel.min.css looks like:

/*!
 *  Font Awesome 4.5.0 by @davegandy - http://fontawesome.io - @fontawesome
 *  License - http://fontawesome.io/license (Font: SIL OFL 1.1,
 CSS: MIT License)
 */
@font-face{
  font-family:FontAwesome;
  src:url(../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.4.0) format("woff2"),
      url(../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=4.4.0) format("woff");
  font-weight:400;
  font-style:normal
}

Added:
I do not know whether the addition “?v=4.4.0” at a local installation of the font files is required.

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That query string is there because of cache busting I guess. Would you mind opening an issue at the Panel repo?

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@lukasbestle:
Since I have no account on github: Please feel free to create an issue. Thanks.

7

Alright. I’ve created a PR since I already found the issue. :slightly_smiling:

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I guess there is another site at
https://github.com/getkirby/panel/blob/lukasbestle/dynamic-fa-version/assets/scss/fontawesome/_fontawesome.scss
for the same trick…

9

But that can’t be automatically inserted. The variable definition follows afterwards. :wink:

10

You may want to delete only the version number there (and add it after the variable definition, if you want)…

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That comment block needs to stay intact because of the license. We will have to change it on each new FontAwesome version, but that’s fine. :slightly_smiling:

12

If I look at

I read:

Attribution is no longer required as of Font Awesome 3.0 but is much appreciated:
“Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - http://fontawesome.io”.

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That’s a big difference. One thing is leaving the license intact, in case other people come across the code.

The other thing is attribution, i.e. officially acknowledging the author on the website.

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