Use font-awesome-type for Font Awesome icons

[spl]

I just created https://github.com/spl/font-awesome-type for Font Awesome icons. Since I've been using Bootstrap, I always found it quite annoying to use strings for the glyphs. So I think it would be better to use some something constructive from the start.

Do you want to use font-awesome-types for the Font Awesome icon enumeration? If so, I can work on that. Also, I'd appreciate a review of it before I publish it to Hackage. (It's a pretty straightforward package, but another set of eyes would be nice.)

[mightybyte]

Wow, you read our minds! @imalsogreg and I were just talking about doing this. We decided we could always add it on later as a layer on top of the String layer.

[spl]

Funny! After I pushed font-awesome-type, I noticed you did a bit on icons. I figured the Font Awesome stuff was relatively general and independent of reflex-dom-semui, so I whipped together a quick package.

[mightybyte]

Couldn't have worked out more perfectly. You should be able to add your font awesome stuff on top of what I did.

[mightybyte]

We were also thinking it would be great to get the actual icons to show up in the haddocks. Something to consider...

[spl]

We were also thinking it would be great to get the actual icons to show up in the haddocks.

I agree. Not sure how to do that currently. These are perhaps the main issues:

1. loading Font Awesome in the Haddock output
2. using HTML in the comments

[ekmett]

Depending on your focus you might also consider the material design icons from google and possibly even the Kenney game icons.

Both are set up as fonts in the same manner as font-awesome, and admit a similar API.

Material design has the benefit of having more consistent widths than font-awesome for the things it covers, but has a largely disjoint range of covered topics.

The following repository supports c headers for all 3:

https://github.com/juliettef/IconFontCppHeaders

[spl]

@ekmett: Good suggestion.

It would certainly be useful to allow for different icon sets, so it's important to have widgets that are flexible.

I started with Font Awesome here since Semantic UI includes Font Awesome. Considering that fact, I think it makes sense to build support for Font Awesome into reflex-dom-semui.

[mightybyte]

Thanks for the pointer to those other icons @ekmett. I think right now I'm going to keep the focus of this package on stuff that is included in Semantic UI. However it might make sense make a dedicated icon package, reflex-icons or something similar that includes all three of those.

[spl]

Et voilà:

[hSloan]

Thank you for this package! I was wondering, will you be updating this package with Font Awesome(v 4.7)?

[mightybyte]

@hSloan You may want to mention that here instead: https://github.com/spl/font-awesome-type