Icons in Private Controls/Public Controls (at bottom of posts and messages)

[WildcatMedia]

I am using the Flat Awesome + theme on our site (the staff loves it!), and had a question. I don't know if I am missing something in the style properties, or if it is a feature to suggest.

To me, the text next to the icons in the private controls and public controls under a post or message seems redundant. Right now we have this:

What would be neat is to have this instead, with no labels next to the icons:

For the +Quote link, I could see using two FontAwesome icons for that:

...but I did not yet investigate where, in the code, to insert that if I decided to make that change.

I am only asking this in Support for now since I don't know if there is a setting I have missed that might turn this feature on or off. In addition, is there a way to turn the icons off so that only the text remains? I am making an alternate child theme that will lose some of the icons (for the older members who can't quite grasp iconography ).

If this isn't implemented, I could repost this in Suggestions. I could probably add something myself (it would just be sets of {xen:if} conditionals around the elements) but would have to reapply it with each theme update.

 

[Russ]

We add them via CSS rather than inline html so for the most part you'll need to edit the template: post. Essentially replace all of the phrases with FA icons.

Additionally this would work on the privateControls, but adding this to your extra.css kind of does the trick:

.privateControls .item {
    width: 23px;
    overflow: hidden;
    height: 23px;
}

Private controls being the left side.

 

[WildcatMedia]

Thanks Russ!

I want to have it be a "switchable" option, so if I can't do it in the theme, I may create a custom field and let users enable the label text on their own. Then I could put those phrases within conditionals. Let me see what I can come up with.

Maybe I will enter a suggestion here, to add these as theme options in future versions.