Material Design Icons out of date

SeanPM5 commented 4 years ago

Checklist

[x] I have updated to the latest available Home Assistant version.
[x] I have cleared the cache of my browser.
[x] I have tried a different browser to see if it is related to my browser.

The problem

Material Design Icons version bump in Home Assistant was last done ~5 months ago by @goyney in PR https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/4764 (to v4.9.95).

Since then v5.0.45 released with a large number of breaking changes. Understandably, it hasn't been updated yet due to this reason. But at this point it's falling quite far behind. There's a difference of at least 570+ icons by my quick count (120 renames, 450 additions).

Most people use the search box on materialdesignicons.com to find icons and expect whatever they see there to work in Home Assistant. There's also things like this Visual Code extension that suggests icons after typing mdi: and is suggesting icons that don't work in HA (yet). A member of the community also created a cool alternative site and this too also shows the renamed and newly added icons.

Breaking Changes: The full list of breaking changes is here: https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign/issues/4901 and on the MDI Changelog and Upgrade Guide.

Here's a small sample showing some of the most commonly used icons in Home Assistant. I think that almost every Home Assistant user will have at least one of these icons used in their setup:

Icon	Old Name	New Name
	`mdi:hotel`	`mdi:bed`
	`mdi:settings`	`mdi:cog`
	`mdi:timer`	`mdi:timer-outline`

I had seen a suggestion to remap the icon names in the past, but even if such a thing is done it would only lessen the impact (albeit significantly) of this breaking change, not eliminate it entirely. It wouldn't be possible to remap the ~75 or so brand icons that got removed.

This was not intended to rush anything along, just wanted there to be a detailed issue for this so that users can be easily linked to an explanation for the delay. Though if there's ever a good time to put out a breaking change like this, it's probably during quarantine when everyone's at home to fix it 😄

Expected behavior

Icon selection and names in Home Assistant should ideally be consistent with what users see on the materialdesignicons.com website and other sources.

Steps to reproduce

Environment

Home Assistant release with the issue: all
Last working Home Assistant release (if known): n/a
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Additional information

mririgoyen commented 4 years ago

This is a duplicate of #5094.

SeanPM5 commented 4 years ago

Ah thanks, missed that issue.

home-assistant / frontend