FontAwesome Pro Plugin Not Changing All Default Icons

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(Apologies, I put this in the wrong place initially)

I’ve had the Font Awesome Pro plugin installed and it’s not changing all the fonts used by default by Discourse.

For example:

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The older topics about the plugin don’t have any guidance on this specific issue that I could find. I thought maybe it was a FA5 vs FA6 naming issue but that’s not the case with fa-layer-group, fa-comment, fa-inbox and others that are not displaying the ‘fa-light’ variant of the icons.

Any tips or tricks or is this a bug? The official topic on the plugin seems like it might not have be updated to really work with FA6 but it’s hard to tell.

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The icons used by Discourse are manually listed in the plugin.

It seems that layer-group is missing. Same for inbox.

The comment icon is a special case, it’s originally named d-chat and it’s mapped to comment icon. This needs to be handled in the plugin as well.

Do you see others missing icons? I will make a PR.

EDIT: Actually nevermind, I will compare with the core list.

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Happy to help if I can, just let me know! There’s many more I can see browsing, especially in the admin sidebar. Thanks.

So for the ones like fa-comment that are reserved by Discourse, is the best course of action to use a different unreserved icon like fa-message or what have you?

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I made a PR to fill in the missing FA icons. However, it still misses the additional SVG custom icons specific to Discourse. This will be left for another PR.

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I put a pri-high on triaging the PR we will have a look at it over the next few days.

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Hey @DavidTCole, @Arkshine’s PR has been merged, so the issue should be fixed once you update the plugin on your site.

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