Why did you rename all the icons?

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Material Design Iconic Font and CSS toolkit

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Why did you rename all the icons? #64

Open cdeutsch opened 9 years ago

cdeutsch commented 9 years ago

I get the prefix change but why rename the icons from what Google named them?

I prefer your library over Google's because of their decision to use ligatures, but now you've added extra work to translate from Google's names to your own. I just don't see a good reason why you'd make this change.

Before I decide if I should remove or fork this library am I missing something?

zavoloklom commented 8 years ago

Hi! First of all explain me why did you want to "translate from Google's names to your own"?

This change I made because of:

Google has some duplicated icons and I think they should be removed from the font
Google's names are strange for web-devs, who used to use FontAwesome or other iconic fonts
I added some icons from the community in this font, and I don't guarantee that Google will not release in the future new icons with the same names, but different in nature, since their names are sometimes illogical

cdeutsch commented 8 years ago

Gotcha.

In my scenario designers are either using the Google version in their prototypes or referencing the icons on Google's site, so every time I'm told keyboard arrow left I have to see what that looks like on Google's site then find it in this library as zmdi-chevron-left.

Before I just know it would be md-keyboard-arrow-left which worked great!